Gregorio Ballabene's Forty-eight-part Mass for Twelve Choirs (1772)

ISBN-13: 9781032128931 / Miękka / 2023 / 120 str.

Florian Bassani

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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