Papal Music and Musicians in Late Medieval and Renaissance Rome

Name: Papal Music and Musicians in Late Medieval and Renaissance Rome
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ISBN: 9780198164173

ISBN-10: 0198164173

ISBN-13: 9780198164173

Edition: 1997

Authors: Richard Sherr

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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 fourteenth to the sixteenth century. New discoveries are offered which force a radical reevaluation of the Italian papal court as a musical centre during the Great Schism. A series of motets for various popes are subject to close analysis. New…

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List price: $330.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/30/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.606



Message from the Librarian of Congress


Preface



Acknowledgements


Original Programme of the Conference


Dedication: Howard Mayer Brown (1930-1993)



Music in the Papal chapel in the 14th, 15th, and 16th Centuries


Early Papal Motets



Papal Chapels and Italian Sources of Polyphony During the Great Schism



Music for the Papal Chapel in the Early Fifteenth Century



Liturgical (and Paraliturgical) Music in the Papal Church towards the End of the 15th Century: a Repertory in Embryo



The Evolutions of a Canon at the Papal Chapel: The Importance of Old Music in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries



Traditions in the Repertory of the Papal Choir in the 15th and 16th Centuries



The Papal Choir as Institution


Strange Obituaries: The Historical Use of the per obitum Supplication



A Curious Incident in the Institutional History of the Papal Choir



Studies of Individuals


Josquin in Rome: Some Evidence from the Masses



A Virtuoso Singer at Ferrara and Rome: The Case of Bidom



Who wrote Ninot's Chansons?



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