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Author Rastall, Richard

Title The Secular Latin Motet in the Renaissance
Published Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (274 pages)
Contents Setting the scene / Roger Brock -- The Durham version of Philippe de Vitry's O Canenda/Rex Quem/Rex Regum / Joanna Melville-Richards -- Keep to the lesbian feet / David Wulstan -- Dicite io! / Stephen Ryle -- Tromboncino, Lhéritier, Verdelot / Piero Gargiulo -- Secular Latin motets in post-tridentine Rome / Noel O'Regan
Summary This study of partsongs and soloistic music is concerned with the musical settings of classical verse. The work, the first of its kind, is a result of a collaboration between a classicist and a musicologist. This book studies, for the first time, the whole genre of the secular motet to Latin text in the Renaissance. Musicologists and classicists with medieval and Renaissance knowledge, as well as expertise in each other's disciplines, bring together ancient, early Christian, medieval and Renaissance materials in an interdisciplinary exploration of the texts, their settings and the social, poli
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Subject Motets -- 15th century -- Congresses
Motets -- 16th century -- Congresses
Choral music -- 15th century -- Congresses
Choral music -- 16th century -- Congresses
Part songs, Latin -- 15th century -- Congresses
Part songs, Latin -- 16th century -- Congresses
Latin poetry -- Musical settings -- Congresses
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Voice.
MUSIC -- Lyrics.
MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Vocal.
Choral music
Motets
Part songs, Latin
Music.
Music, Dance, Drama & Film.
Music Literature.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773419049
0773419047