Studies in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Italian Sacred Music

List of contents

Contents: Introduction; Bibliography; Part 1 Critical and Analytical Essays: A critical commentary on Monteverdi’s Missa in illo Tempore; Giovanni Francesco Capello: an avant-gardist of the early seventeenth century; Palestrina’s Magnificats: a brief survey; Polyphonic psalm structures in seventeenth-century Italian office music. Part 2 Performance Matters: Tones, modes, clefs and pitch in Roman cyclic Magnificats of the 16th century; Per fare il vespro meno tedioso: Don Pietro Maria Marsolo and the ‘antiphon problem’; The performance of eight-voice and polychoral psalmody with instruments in Italy and its role in the development of the concertato style in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Part 3 Historical Issues: Stylistic diversity in Vesper psalms and Magnificats published in Italy in the seventeenth century; The effect on Italian liturgical music of the Council of Trent (1562), the Breviarium Romanum (1568) and the Caeremoniale Episcoporum (1600); Indexes.

About the author

Jeffrey Kurtzman is Professor of Music at Washington University in St Louis, USA.

Summary

Although he is often identified as a Monteverdi scholar, the majority of Jeffrey Kurtzman’s work has focused on other sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italian sacred music. Organized into three sections, this book provides critical and analytical essays spotlighting the sacred music of Monteverdi and other composers such as Giovanni Francesco Cap

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey Kurtzman, Kurtzman Jeffrey
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032921174
• ISBN: 978-1-032-92117-4
• No. of pages: 360
• Weight: 453 g
• Series: Variorum Collected Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music; MUSIC / Religious / General, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Italy, baroque, Renaissance style, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600), Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750), Medieval style, Sacred and religious music, Sacred & Religious Music