Josquin's Rome: Hearing and Composing in the Sistine Chapel

by Jesse Rodin

Book Overview

In the late fifteenth century the newly built Sistine Chapel was home to a vigorous culture of musical composition and performance. Josquin des Prez stood at its center, singing and composing for the pope's private choir. Josquin's Rome offers a new reading of the composer's work in light of the repertory he and his fellow papal singers performed from the chapel's singers' box. Comprising the single largest surviving corpus of late fifteenth-century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199844305
• ISBN13: 9780199844302
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.3"