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Jeffrey Kurtzman
Although he is often identified as a Monteverdi scholar, the majority of Jeffrey Kurtzman's work has focused on other sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italian sacred music. Organized into three sections, this…
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Part of a series of full-score volumes of 17th-century Italian sacred music which have been largely been unavailable for study or performance, includes a comprehensive introduction, composer history and offers…
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With classics of seventeenth-century Italian music set in modern notation, this features works by Francesco Cavalli, Giovanni Legrenzi among others, as well as notes on sources and a full commentary.
This volume gathers together twelve essays on the composer’s music, reflecting the author’s interests in aesthetic and psychological issues, the sacred works, methods of structural analysis, and the problems of…
This third part of Vesper and Compline Music for Multiple Choirs features works by Giacomo Giacobbi, Viriglio Mazzochi, Tarquinio Merula and Francesco Soriano.
Although he is often identified as a Monteverdi scholar, the majority of Jeffrey Kurtzman’s work has focused on other sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italian sacred music. Organized into three sections.
This volume studies the Monteverdi Vespers from the standpoint of its musical and liturgical origins and context, contains analytical essays on the music, and examines 17th-century performance practice as it…
Anne Schnoebelen
Alessandro Grandi
Alessandro Grandi (ca. 1586-1630) is best known as the first composer to use a form of the word cantata to describe a set of musical compositions (for his Cantade et…
