Born for the muses
the life and Masses of Jacob Obrecht
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Word Count
101,500 words, Guess
Page Count
406 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL985240M
- ISBN-100198166508
- OCLC Control Number34710926
- OCLC Control Numberbornformuseslife0000wegm_h0e6
- Library of Congress Control Number96023052
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- Goodreads1185556
- LibraryThing1354874
Classifications
- DDC782.2/2/092
- LCCML410.O27 W44 1996
Description
Son of a town trumpeter, Jacob Obrecht became one of the most prominent composers in Europe in the late fifteenth century. In Born for the Muses Rob Wegman 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, Wegman 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.
Description
"Son of a town trumpeter, Jacob Obrecht became one of the most prominent composers in Europe in the late fifteenth century. In Born for the Muses Rob Wegman 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, Wegman 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Oxford monographs on music
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