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Summary:

The important contribution of Heinrich Isaac (ca. 1455-1517) to polyphonic settings of the proper of the mass has long been recognised. The monumental posthumously published collection of his work in the genre, the Choralis Constantinus, was considered as a landmark even in the sixteenth century. Isaac's striking cultivation of polyphonic mass proper settings has its roots in his task, as Hofcomponist to Emperor Maximilian I, of building a musical repertoire for the Imperial court chapel. The repertoire he created awakened a demand for analogous music at other European courts and institutions and led, in 1508, to the commissioning of an extraordinary series of proper cycles from him by the authorities of Constance Cathedral.

Table of Contents:

• Chant adorned : the polyphonic mass proper in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance / David J. Burn & Stefan Gasch
• The medieval mass proper, and the arrival of polyphonic proper settings in Central Europe / Reinhard Strohm
• Renaissance Portugal. Fragments of fifteenth-century northern propers in Portugal / Bernadette Nelson ; The Liber introitus of Miguel da Fonseca, and a possible improvisatory model / João Pedro D'Alvarenga & Manuel Pedro Ferreira
• Heinrich Isaac's Choralis Constantinus. Isaac's unfinished imperial cycle : a new hypothesis / David Rothenberg ; The Choralis Constantinus and the organ / William P. Mahrt ; Isaac, the mass proper, and the motet / Anthony M. Cummings ; Who devised the proportional notation in Isaac's Choralis Constantinus? / Ruth I. DeFord ; Commercialising the Choralis Constantinus : the printing and publishing of the first edition / Royston Gustavson ; Getting proper-ly started : Heinrich Isaac's Choralis Constantinus and the introduction of polyphonic mass propers in South-German monasteries / Barbara Eichner
• Tradition and renewal. Leonhard Paminger's manuscript of mass propers / David J. Burn ; Beyond Munich : Senfl's propers in prints and manuscripts / Stefan Gasch ; Mass propers in the choirbooks of the Benedictine Abbey of SS. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg (1575-1614) : between tradition and reform / Tobias Rimek ; Polyphonic mass propers from the Braunsberg Jesuit Collegium and their local context / Agnieszka Leszczyńska ; The proper of the mass in sixteenth- and early-seventeenth-century Lutheran liturgies and its relationships with other types of De Tempore cycle / Mattias Lundberg ; Byrd and the mass proper tradition / Kerry McCarthy.

Contributors:

Burn, David J. (David Joseph), 1974- , editor, author

Gasch, Stefan , editor, author

Strohm, Reinhard , author

Nelson, Bernadette , author

Alvarenga, João Pedro d' , author

Ferreira, Manuel Pedro , author

Rothenberg, David J. (David Joseph) , author

Mahrt, William P. , author

Cummings, Anthony M. , author

DeFord, Ruth I. , author

Gustavson, Royston, 1964- , author

Eichner, Barbara, 1976- , author

Rimek, Tobias , author

Leszczyńska, Agnieszka , author

Lundberg, Mattias, 1972- , author

McCarthy, Kerry Robin , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Collection "Epitome musical."

Subjects:

Isaac, Heinrich, approximately 1450-1517 — Choralis Constantinus

Church music — Catholic Church — 16th century — History and criticism

Propers (Music) — History and criticism

Counterpoint — History

Choralis Constantinus (Isaac, Heinrich)

1500-1599

Church music

Propers (Music)

Counterpoint

Church music — Catholic Church

Genres:

History

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Physical Description:

438 pages : facsimiles, music, photographs ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

ML3088 .H44 2011

ISBNs:

9782503542492
2503542492

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2012445382

OCLC Numbers:

754711962