Requiem of Tomas Luis De Victoria (1603)

The first substantial study of Victoria's Requiem, among the most prominent Renaissance musical works, encompassing its genesis, style, and impact.

List of contents

Introduction: 'Requiem for an age'?; 1. Chaplain of the Empress; 2. María's exequies in context; 3. Publishing the Officium Defunctorum; 4. Fashioning the Requiem; 5. 'The crowning work of a great genius'; Epilogue: Requiem for our age?

About the author

Owen Rees is Professor of Music at the University of Oxford, and Fellow in Music at The Queen's College, University of Oxford. He specialises in Spanish and Portuguese sacred music of the 'golden age' and has published on the principal composers of the period – Morales, Guerrero, and Victoria – and on numerous other repertories, genres, and sources from the Iberian Peninsula.

Summary

A significant addition to the scholarship available in English on Victoria and his music, this study encompasses the genesis, style, and impact of the six-voice Requiem. It will be of interest to students and scholars studying the Renaissance and sacred and courtly rituals in the early-modern period more generally, as well as enquiring listeners.

Product details

• Authors: Owen Rees, Owen (University of Oxford) Rees, Rees Owen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781107054424
• ISBN: 978-1-107-05442-4
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: Music in Context; Music in Context
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, Spain, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / General, c 1500 onwards to present day, baroque, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, History and Archaeology, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750)