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Papal Music and Musicians in Late Medieval and Renaissance Rome

This book collects twelve of the papers given at a conference held at the Library of Congress on 1-3 April 1993, when a group of distinguished scholars gathered to consider 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.

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Papal Music and Musicians in Late Medieval and Renaissance Rome

This book collects twelve of the papers given at a conference held at the Library of Congress on 1-3 April 1993, when a group of distinguished scholars gathered to consider 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.

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Papal Music and Musicians in Late Medieval and Renaissance Rome

Papal Music and Musicians in Late Medieval and Renaissance Rome

by Richard Sherr
Papal Music and Musicians in Late Medieval and Renaissance Rome

Papal Music and Musicians in Late Medieval and Renaissance Rome

by Richard Sherr

Overview

This book collects twelve of the papers given at a conference held at the Library of Congress on 1-3 April 1993, when a group of distinguished scholars gathered to consider 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198164173
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 02/28/1998
Pages: 384
Product dimensions: 9.30(w) x 6.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Smith College

Table of Contents

Message from the Librarian of Congress
Preface, Richard Sherr
Acknowledgements
Original Programme of the Conference
Dedication: Howard Mayer Brown (1930-1993), James Haar
Music in the Papal chapel in the 14th, 15th, and 16th Centuries
Early Papal Motets, Margaret Bent
Papal Chapels and Italian Sources of Polyphony During the Great Schism, Guiliana Di Bacco/John Nádas
Music for the Papal Chapel in the Early Fifteenth Century, Alejandro Planchart
Liturgical (and Paraliturgical) Music in the Papal Church towards the End of the 15th Century: a Repertory in Embryo, Adalbert Roth
The Evolutions of a Canon at the Papal Chapel: The Importance of Old Music in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, Jeffrey Dean
Traditions in the Repertory of the Papal Choir in the 15th and 16th Centuries, Mitchell Brauner
The Papal Choir as Institution
Strange Obituaries: The Historical Use of the per obitum Supplication, Pamela Starr
A Curious Incident in the Institutional History of the Papal Choir, Richard Sherr
Studies of Individuals
Josquin in Rome: Some Evidence from the Masses, James Haar
A Virtuoso Singer at Ferrara and Rome: The Case of Bidom, Lewis Lockwood
Who wrote Ninot's Chansons?, Louise Litterick
Palestrina at Work, Jessie Ann Owens

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