Papal music and musicians in late Medieval and Renaissance Rome / edited by Richard Sherr.

Other author Sherr, Richard, editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford : Clarendon Press in association with Library of Congress, Washington ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Descriptionxxviii, 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Church music--Catholic Church. --Congresses.
Church music--Italy. --Rome. --Congresses.
Church musicians--Italy. --Rome. --Congresses.
Church music--Catholic Church. --500-1400. --Congresses.

Contents Early Papal motets / Margaret Bent -- The Papal chapels and italian sources of polyphony during the Great Schism / Giuliano Di Bacco and John Nádas -- Music for the Papal Chapel in the early fifteenth century / Alejandro Enrique Planchart -- Liturgical (and paraliturgical) music in the Papal Chapel towards the end of the fifteenth century: a repertory in embryo / Adalbert Roth -- The evolution of a canon at the Papal Chapel: the importance of old music in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Jeffrey Dean -- Traditions in the repertory of the Papal choir in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Mitchell P. Brauner -- Strange obituaries: the historical uses of the per obitum supplication / Pamela F. Starr -- A curious incident in the institutional history of the Papal Choir / Richard Sherr -- Josquin in Rome: some evidence from the masses / James Haar -- A virtuoso singer at Ferrara and Rome: the case of Bidon / Lewis Lockwood -- Who wrote Ninot's chansons? / Louise Litterick -- Palestrina at work / Jessie Ann Owens.
Abstract This book collects twelve of the papers given at a conference held at the Library of Congress, Washington D.C., on 1-3 April 1993, in conjunction with the exhibition 'Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture'. A group of distinguished scholars considered music in medieval and renaissance Rome. The volume presents a series of wide-ranging and original treatments of music written for and performed in the papal court from the 14th to the 16th century.
General notePapers presented at the symposium "Music, musicians, and musical culture in Renaissance Rome," Aprril 1-3, 1993, at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 301-320) and index.
LCCN 97002765
ISBN0198164173 (acid-free paper)

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Music Music Stacks ML3033.8.R66 P37 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold