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.
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 scholar...
Donated in the late fifteenth century to the papal choir, the musical manuscript Cappella Sistina14 reflects a new style of mass composition used by some of the era's most noted composers. Masses for the Sistine Chapel makes the complete contents of the Cappella Sistina14--held in the Vatican Library--available for the first time.
Featuring fifteen masses and four mass fragments, this volume includes works by such composers as Guillaume Du Fay, Johannes Ockeghem, and Antoine Busnoys. In a comprehensive introduction and critical commentary on each...
Donated in the late fifteenth century to the papal choir, the musical manuscript Cappella Sistina14 reflects a new style of mass comp...
