1st Edition
Studies in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Italian Sacred Music
By Jeffrey Kurtzman
Copyright 2014
360 Pages
by
Routledge
360 Pages
by
Routledge
360 Pages
by
Routledge
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Although he is often identified as a Monteverdi scholar (Approaches to Monteverdi: Aesthetic, Psychological, Analytical and Historical Studies, published in the Variorum series in 2013), the majority of Jeffrey Kurtzman’s work has focused on other sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italian sacred music. Organized into three sections, part one begins with a chapter on the Monteverdi Mass and... Read more
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.
Biography
Jeffrey Kurtzman is Professor of Music at Washington University in St Louis, USA.
