Requiem : music of mourning and consolation / by Alec Robertson.

Author/creator Robertson, Alec
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Frederick A. Praeger, 1968, ©1967.
Descriptionxii, 300 pages : music ; 26 cm
Subjects

Contents Part one. The Latin requiem mass. The funeral rites and prayers of the early Christians ; The origins of the Missa pro defunctis ; The Plainsong Mass of the Dead ; The requiem mass to the end of the sixteenth century. Dufay, Ockeghem, Brumel, De La Rue ; Morales, Palestrina, Anerio, Asola, Victoria ; The requiem mass in the seventeenth century ; The requiem mass from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Michael Haydn and Mozart ; Cherubini and Berlioz ; Verdi and Dvor̆ák ; Fauré́, Duruflé, and Pizzetti -- Part two. Holy week music. Stabat Mater ; Liszt's Via Crucis ; The Holy Week Office of Tenebrae -- Part three. Lutheran funeral music. German requiems: Schütz and Brahms ; Six Bach church cantatas -- Part four. Anglican funeral music. Anglican funeral music: Purcell, Croft, Davies -- Part five. Memorial music and laments -- Part six. Modern elegiac works. Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius ; Hindemith's When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloomed ; Requiems of the First World War: Foulds, Elgar, Bliss, Delius ; Britten's War Requiem.
Local noteJOYNER MUSIC LIBRARY--Gift plate: "Presented by Otto Henry, April, 1969".
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 68019860