UID:
almahu_9949385301102882
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 122 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781003226710
,
100322671X
,
9781000487138
,
100048713X
,
9781000487121
,
1000487121
Series Statement:
Royal Musical Association monographs
Content:
Neither Spem in alium, the widely acclaimed ⁰́₈songe of fortie partes⁰́₉ by Thomas Tallis, nor Alessandro Striggio⁰́₉s forty-part Mass is the largest-scale counterpoint work in Western music. Theactual winner is Gregorio Ballabene, a relatively unknown Roman maestro di cappella, a contemporary of Giovanni Paisiello, Joseph Haydn and Luigi Boccherini, who composed in forty-eight parts for twelve choirs. His Mass saw only a public rehearsal and was never performed liturgically despite all of Ballabene⁰́₉s efforts to promote it. On closer inspection, however, the work deserves special consideration as a piece of outstanding combinatory creativity ⁰́₃ the product of a talent able to conceive, structure and realise a project of colossal dimensions. It might even be claimed that if Charles Burney had gained knowledge of it, all derogatory comments by nineteenth-century music historians would not have succeeded in extinguishing the interest of later generations. Ballabene⁰́₉s Mass has remained completely unstudied until today, even though the score survives in prominent collections. This study offers, for the first time, a historical and analytical perspective on this overlooked manifestation of a very individual musical intelligence.
Note:
Introduction 1.Twelve-choir performances 2.The presence of a glorious past 3.Burney⁰́₉s ⁰́₈Mass⁰́₉ 4.Ballabene and his Mass in Martini⁰́₉s correspondence 5.The ⁰́₈rehearsal⁰́₉ and its outcome 6.Consequences for Ballabene⁰́₉s professional advancement 7.Martini⁰́₉s approbation 8.Important compositional features 9.Pitoni⁰́₉s Mass 10.Ballabene and the twilight of an era 11.Fame and posthumous fame 12.The history of the score 13.Unfortunate anachronism or accomplishment of the Roman Baroque? Appendix I: Documents (in chronological order) Appendix II: Documented copies of Ballabene⁰́₉s Mass Bibliography
Additional Edition:
Ebook version : ISBN 9781000487138
Additional Edition:
Print version: Bassani, Florian, 1972- Gregorio Ballabene's Forty-eight-part Mass for Twelve Choirs (1772). [Place of publication not identified] : Routledge, 2021 ISBN 1032128925
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032128924
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003226710
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003226710
