Synopsis
Cristbal de Morales was the most famous Spanish composer of the mid sixteenth century. His music was known internationally during his lifetime. He was eulogized by contemporary writers, and his fame and influence remained significant in the seventeenth century: sixty years after his death, he was still regarded as one of the finest composers of sacred polyphony. His repertory includes over twenty Masses and a very large number of motets and works in other sacred genres.
This wide-ranging volume examines numerous aspects of the composer's works, and the Spanish and other contexts within which they were composed and received. Topics covered include sources, newly uncovered works and issues of authorship, musical traditions in Spain and elsewhere, the transmission and reception of Morales's music in Spain, Northern Europe and the New World, patterns of influence and emulation involving Morales and other composers, and modern perceptions of Morales and his music. The book also provides the first comprehensive published list of the composer's works and their sources.
OWEN REES is Reader in the Faculty of Music at the University of Oxford; BERNADETTE NELSON is affiliated to Wolfson College at the University of Oxford.
Contributors: CRISTLE COLLINS JUDD, MARTIN HAM, TESS KNIGHTON, KENNETH KREITNER, ALISON SANDERS MCFARLAND, MICHAEL NOONE, BERNADETTE NELSON, OWEN REES, STEPHEN RICE, EMILIO ROS-FABREGAS, GRAEME SKINNER, ROBERT STEVENSON, CRISTINA URCHEGUIA, GRAYSON WAGSTAFF
Table of Contents
Landmark Contributions to Cristbal de Morales Scholarship - Robert Stevenson
The Nuevo rezado, Music Scribes, and the Restoration of Morales's Toledo Lamentation - Michael Noone and Graeme Skinner
Two Early Morales Magnificat Settings - Kenneth Kreitner
Morales, Spanish Traditions, Liturgical Works, and the Problem of Style - Grayson Wagstaff
Morales' Contribution to the Pange lingua Tradition and an Anonymous Tantum ergo - Bernadette Nelson
Another Look at Polyphonic Borrowing: Morales, the Missa Quem dicunt homines, and the Missa Vulnerasti cor meum - Alison McFarland
Multi-layered Models: Compositional Approaches in the 1540s to Si bona suscepimus - Cristle Collins Judd
Multiple Layers of Borrowing in Sancta Maria Motets by Morales and his Contemporaries - Stephen Rice
Morales in Print: Distribution and Ownership in Renaissance Spain - Tess Knighton
Morales at the Periphery: Dissemination of Motets in France, Germany, and the Low Countries - Martin Ham
Morales's Voice in the Viceroyalties - Robert Stevenson
Cristbal de Morales: A Problem of Musical Mysticism and National Identity in the Historiography of the Renaissance - Emilio Ros Fbregas
Editing Cristbal de Morales's Masses Today - Cristina Urchuegua
Morales: The Canon - Martin Ham
About the Author
Owen Rees is a freelance historian, writer and researcher, as well as an assistant editor to Sparta: Journal of Ancient Spartan and Greek History. He studied Ancient History at the University of Reading and History (Research) at the University of Nottingham. He is a regular contributor to Ancient Warfare magazine.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
