Cristóbal de Morales: Sources, Influences, Reception
- Editor: Nelson, Bernadette
- Editor: Rees, Owen
This excellent new volume...is a wide-ranging anthology...it includes all the leading scholars in the field. -- Peter Phillips
Cristóbal de Morales: Sources, Influences, Reception
- Editor: Nelson, Bernadette
- Editor: Rees, Owen
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This excellent new volume...is a wide-ranging anthology...it includes all the leading scholars in the field. -- Peter Phillips
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A comprehensive survey of the music of Cristóbal de Morales, the leading Spanish composer of his time. Cristóbal 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 othersacred 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 uncoveredworks 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
Contents
- Landmark Contributions to Cristobal 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
- Cristobal de Morales: A Problem of Musical Mysticism and National Identity in the Historiography of the Renaissance - Emilio Ros Fabregas
- Editing Cristobal de Morales's Masses Today - Cristina Urchueguia
- Morales: The Canon - Martin Ham
Awards and reviews
This excellent new volume...is a wide-ranging anthology...it includes all the leading scholars in the field. -- Peter Phillips
Music and Letters
A significant achievement [providing] a much needed impetus for the revision of this figure and his music...a required purchase for all serious libraries
