| Series |
Oxford monographs on music
Oxford monographs on music. ^A256395
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| Contents |
A past without a music history -- The historicity of musical texts -- The textuality of music history -- A music history without a present? -- 1457/8-1485 -- The Orphic Jacob -- Mille quingentis -- Willem Obrecht -- Lysbette Gheeraerts -- Born for the muses -- Corporate musicianship in Ghent -- A different course -- Formative years -- Early career: patterns and parallels -- Bergen op Zoom and Cambrai, 1480-1485 -- Beyond Busnoys -- Missa Petrus apostolus -- Missa Beata viscera -- Missa O lumen ecclesie -- Missa Sicut spina rosam -- 1485-1491 -- Years of crisis -- Bruges and Ferrara, 1485-1488 -- Death of a city trumpeter: Ghent, 1488-1492 -- Bruges, 1488-1491 -- The critical phase -- Missa De Sancto Martino -- Missa De Sancto Donatiano -- Missa Salve diva parens -- Missa Adieu mes amours -- Towards a new language -- Missa Ave regina celorum -- Missa De Sancto Johanne Baptista -- The mature style -- The '1491-3' masses -- Earlier mature masses -- The mature oeuvre -- 1491-1505 -- 'Jubilating always in my songs' -- Antwerp and Bergen op Zoom, 1491 / 2-1498 -- Bruges and Antwerp, 1498-1503 -- Beyond Fortuna -- Obrecht the progressive: late motets -- Missa Maria zart -- Missa Si dedero -- Missa Cela sans plus -- Postscript: Missa Sub tuum presidium -- The last journey -- Innsbruck and Rome, 1503-1504 -- Ferrara, 1504-1505 -- Documents -- Rhythmic density in the Masses of Jacob Obrecht. |
| Abstract |
Son of a town trumpeter, Jacob Obrecht became one of the most prominent composers in Europe in the late fifteenth century. This book enlarges our picture of the social and cultural conditions that framed his world, drawing on a wealth of new archival sources and a newly discovered dated portrait that sheds light on his development as a composer. Obrecht's greatest contribution lay in the field of mass composition. In a penetrating stylistic analysis, the author treats each of the thirty-odd surviving masses as a historical record, tracing influences and establishing a rich context for the development of Obrecht's musical language. This new assessment of his creative achievement and historical significance entirely changes the face of Obrecht studies and of late fifteenth-century music in general. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-395) and indexes. |
| LCCN | 93039022 |
| ISBN | 0198163827 : |
