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Cori Spezzati: Volume 2: An Anthology of Sacred Polychoral Music
Anthony F. Carver
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Description for Cori Spezzati: Volume 2: An Anthology of Sacred Polychoral Music
Paperback. This companion volume offers an anthology of seventeen complete pieces, most of which are analysed in the text of volume I. Editor(s): Carver, Anthony F. Num Pages: 172 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC8; AVGD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 9. Weight in Grams: 290.
Cori Spezzati deals with polychoral church music from its beginnings in the first few decades of the sixteenth century to its climax in the work of Giovanni Gabrieli and Heinrich Schiitz. In polychoral music the singers, sometimes with instrumentalists also, were split into two (or more) groups which often engaged in lively dialogue and joined in majestic tutti climaxes. The first volume draws on contemporary descriptions of the idiom, especially from the writings of Vicentino and Zarlino, but concentrates in the main on musical analysis, showing how antiphonal chanting (such as that of the psalms), dialogue and canon influenced the ... Read more
Cori Spezzati deals with polychoral church music from its beginnings in the first few decades of the sixteenth century to its climax in the work of Giovanni Gabrieli and Heinrich Schiitz. In polychoral music the singers, sometimes with instrumentalists also, were split into two (or more) groups which often engaged in lively dialogue and joined in majestic tutti climaxes. The first volume draws on contemporary descriptions of the idiom, especially from the writings of Vicentino and Zarlino, but concentrates in the main on musical analysis, showing how antiphonal chanting (such as that of the psalms), dialogue and canon influenced the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
Number of Pages
172
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521106351
SKU
V9780521106351
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