Gregorio Ballabenes Forty-Eight-Part Mass for Twelve Choirs (1772)

Ballabene's Mass has remained completely unstudied until today, even though the score survives in prominent collections. This study offers, for the first time, a historical and analytical perspective on this overlooked manifestation of a very individual musical intelligence.

List of contents

Introduction
1. Twelve-choir performances
2. The presence of a glorious past
3. Burney’s ‘Mass’
4. Ballabene and his Mass in Martini’s correspondence
5. The ‘rehearsal’ and its outcome
6. Consequences for Ballabene’s professional advancement
7. Martini’s approbation
8. Important compositional features
9. Pitoni’s Mass
10. Ballabene and the twilight of an era
11. Fame and posthumous fame
12. The history of the score
13. Unfortunate anachronism or accomplishment of the Roman Baroque?
Appendix I: Documents (in chronological order)
Appendix II: Documented copies of Ballabene’s Mass
Bibliography

About the author

Dr Florian Bassani is a lecturer at the Institute of Musicology, University of Bern, Switzerland.

Summary

Ballabene’s Mass has remained completely unstudied until today, even though the score survives in prominent collections. This study offers, for the first time, a historical and analytical perspective on this overlooked manifestation of a very individual musical intelligence.

Product details

• Authors: Florian Bassani
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781032128924
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3212892-4
• No. of pages: 120
• Series: Royal Musical Association Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / General, MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Choral, baroque, Composers and songwriters, Classical Music (C 1750 To C 1830), Classical style, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750)