The polyphonic mass in France, 1600-1780 : the evidence of the printed choirbooks / Jean-Paul C. Montagnier.
| Author/creator |
Montagnier, Jean-Paul |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017. |
| Description | xxv, 331 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Printed choirbooks -- Choirbooks and musical practice -- People and networks -- Music and liturgy -- Lassus as model -- Stylistic considerations -- Two best sellers -- Missa pro defunctis -- Conclusion -- Appendixes. The corpus -- Printed partbooks -- Manuscript scores and parts -- Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century handwritten arrangements of masses printed in Choirbook layout -- Chronology of the ballard choirbooks. |
| Abstract | This is the first ever book-length study of the a cappella masses which appeared in France in choirbook layout during the baroque era. Though the musical settings of the Ordinarium missæ and of the Missa pro defunctis have been the subject of countless studies, the stylistic evolution of the polyphonic masses composed in France during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries has been neglected owing to the labor involved in creating scores from the surviving individual parts. The author has examined closely the printed, engraved and stenciled choirbooks containing this repertoire, and his book focuses mainly on the music as it stands in them. After tracing the choirbooks' publishing history, the author places these mass settings in their social, liturgical and musical context. The author shows that their style did not all adhere strictly to the stile antico, but could also employ the most up-to-date musical language of the period. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-325) and index. |
| LCCN | 2016050608 |
| ISBN | 9781107177741 hardback alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 110717774X |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Music | Music Stacks | ML3088 .M65 2017 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |