The Polyphonic Mass in France, 1600–1780: The Evidence of the Printed Choirbooks - Hardcover

Montagnier, Jean-Paul C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 110717774X ISBN 13: 9781107177741

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2017

Synopsis

This is the first ever book-length study of the a cappella masses which appeared in France in choirbook layout during the baroque era. Though the musical settings of the Ordinarium missę and of the Missa pro defunctis have been the subject of countless studies, the stylistic evolution of the polyphonic masses composed in France during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries has been neglected owing to the labor involved in creating scores from the surviving individual parts. Jean-Paul C. Montagnier has examined closely the printed, engraved and stenciled choirbooks containing this repertoire, and his book focuses mainly on the music as it stands in them. After tracing the choirbooks' publishing history, the author places these mass settings in their social, liturgical and musical context. He shows that their style did not all adhere strictly to the stile antico, but could also employ the most up-to-date musical language of the period.

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Review:

'... Montagnier's book is a seminal and exceptional contribution to the study of French sacred music during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.' Thierry Favier, Music and Letters

Book Description:

The first ever book-length study of the a cappella masses which appeared in France in choirbook layout during the baroque era. After tracing the publishing history of this distinctive but little-known repertoire, the author places the works in their social, liturgical and musical context.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 110717774X
• ISBN 13: 9781107177741
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 358