Description
| Product ID: | 9781107676213 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Music in Context |
| Title: | The Requiem of Tomas Luis de Victoria (1603) |
| Authors: | Author: Owen Rees |
| Page Count: | 276 |
| Subjects: | Art music, orchestral and formal music, Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750), Composers and songwriters, European history, History, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, European history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Spain, c 1500 to c 1600 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A significant addition to the scholarship available in English on Victoria and his music, this study encompasses the genesis, style, and impact of the six-voice Requiem. It will be of interest to students and scholars studying the Renaissance and sacred and courtly rituals in the early-modern period more generally, as well as enquiring listeners. Victoria''s Requiem is among the best-loved and most-performed musical works of the Renaissance, and is often held to be ''a Requiem for an age'', representing the summation of golden-age Spanish polyphony. Yet it has been the focus of surprisingly little research. Owen Rees''s multifaceted study brings together the historical and ritual contexts for the work''s genesis, the first detailed musical analysis of the Requiem itself, and the long story of its circulation and reception. Victoria composed this music in 1603 for the exequies of María of Austria, and oversaw its publication two years later. A rich variety of contemporary documentation allows these events - and the nature of music in Habsburg exequies - to be reconstructed vividly. Rees then locates Victoria''s music within the context of a vast international repertory of Requiems, much of it previously unstudied, and identifies the techniques which render this work so powerfully distinctive and coherent. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-09-02 |
