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Music for an academic defense : Rome, 1617
Uniform Title
Modi quos expositis in choris
Title
Music for an academic defense : Rome, 1617 / Domenico Allegri ; edited by Antony John ; with historical and textual commentary by Louise Rice and Clare Woods.
ISBN
9781987202656
9780895795526
Publication
Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2019.
Copyright Notice Date
©2004
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 score (xxiv, 57 pages, 3 pages of plates) + 1 set of 4 parts) : facsimiles.
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Notes
For 2 mixed choruses (SATB, SATB, in part with solos) with editorially reconstructed accompaniment of strings and continuo (organ); additional instruments are mentioned; includes parts for 2 violins, viola, and violoncello.
Edited from: Modi quos expositis in chorus fecit Dominicus Allegrius Romanus, musicæ præfectus in Basilica liberiana. Romæ, apud Io. Baptistam Roblettum, M. DC. XVII.
Historical, textual, and performance notes on pages vii-xxiii; critical report on pages 55-57.
Latin words by Cesare Laurenti, also printed as text with English translation by Clare Woods, p. xxiv.
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Summary
"Thesis defenses were extravagant events in seventeenth-century Rome, public demonstrations of erudition staged with all the trappings of baroque spectacle and framed within a festive apparatus of art, poetry, and music. For such events it was customary to perform music composed especially for the occasion, such as that composed by Domenico Allegri for the 1617 defense of Ilario Frumenti, a young nobleman from Como who studied philosophy at the Collegio Romano in Rome. The work consists of three parts--"Sol," "Saturnus," and "Mercurius"--and is scored for two choirs, soloists, and instruments. This edition recreates Frumenti's thesis defense, exploring the role of the music in the pageantry surrounding the occasion and the close relationship of the music to the printed images and poetry commissioned to accompany it. In reconstructing Frumenti's defense, this edition provides a unique perspective on a remarkable tradition." -- Provided by publisher.
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Recent researches in music online. Legacy.
Other formats
Print version: Allegri, Domenico, approximately 1585-1629. Modi quos expositis in choris. Music for an academic defense. Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2004.
Format
Music Scores / Online
Language
Latin
Added to Catalog
March 29, 2023
Series
Recent researches in the music of the Baroque Era ; 134
Recent researches in Music Online,
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Sol
Saturnus
Mercurius.
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