Heinrich Isaac and polyphony for the proper of the mass in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance / edited by David J. Burn and Stefan Gasch.
| Other author | Burn, David J. (David Joseph), 1974- editor. |
| Other author | Gasch, Stefan, editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Turnhout : Brepols, 2011. |
| Description | 438 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Collection "EĢpitome musical" Collection "Epitome musical." UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | Chant adorned: the polyphonic mass proper in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance / David J. Burn & Stefan Gasch -- The medieval mass proper, and the arrival of polyphonic proper settings in Central Europe / Reinhard Strohm -- Renaissance Portugal. Fragments of fifteenth-century northern propers in Portugal / Bernadette Nelson ; The Liber introitus of Miguel da Fonseca, and a possible improvisatory model / João Pedro D'Alvarenga & Manuel Pedro Ferreira -- Heinrich Isaac's Choralis Constantinus. Isaac's unfinished imperial cycle: a new hypothesis / David Rothenberg ; The Choralis Constantinus and the organ / William P. Mahrt ; Isaac, the mass proper, and the motet / Anthony M. Cummings ; Who devised the proportional notation in Isaac's Choralis Constantinus? / Ruth I. DeFord ; Commercialising the Choralis Constantinus: the printing and publishing of the first edition / Royston Gustavson ; Getting proper-ly started: Heinrich Isaac's Choralis Constantinus and the introduction of polyphonic mass propers in South-German monasteries / Barbara Eichner -- Tradition and renewal. Leonhard Paminger's manuscript of mass propers / David J. Burn ; Beyond Munich: Senfl's propers in prints and manuscripts / Stefan Gasch ; Mass propers in the choirbooks of the Benedictine Abbey of SS. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg (1575-1614): between tradition and reform / Tobias Rimek ; Polyphonic mass propers from the Braunsberg Jesuit Collegium and their local context / Agnieszka Leszczyńska ; The proper of the mass in sixteenth- and early-seventeenth-century Lutheran liturgies and its relationships with other types of De Tempore cycle / Mattias Lundberg ; Byrd and the mass proper tradition / Kerry McCarthy. |
| Abstract | The important contribution of Heinrich Isaac to the genre of the proper of the mass has long been recognised. His work in this genre, collected in the monumental posthumously published Choralis Constantinus, was considered a landmark even in the sixteenth century. Yet Isaac's magnum opus was by no means isolated. The mass proper played a much greater and more significant musical and symbolic role in the landscape of later-medieval and Renaissance music-making than is currently acknowledged. The present collection of fifteen essays offers new insights into both Isaac's mass propers themselves, which are still shrouded by many enigmas, and their context within broader later-fifteenth and sixteenth-century mass proper traditions. The circumstances under which the composer's mass propers were composed, performed, and transmitted are discussed afresh, as is the striking late-sixteenth-century reception that the Choralis experienced. Studies of previously unknown or little-examined mass proper collections from countries as widely seperated as Portugal and Poland, as well as of the transformation of the genre in Lutheran territories and in the hands of William Byrd, show that the composer's enterprise, though the largest of its kind, was built on and embedded in a strong and ongoing tradition of proper settings and cycles. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| LCCN | 2012445382 |
| ISBN | 9782503542492 |
| ISBN | 2503542492 |