Latin and music in the early modern era : : education, theory, composition, performance and reception / / Robert Forgács.

• Superior document: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences
• VerfasserIn: Forgács, Róbert,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (106 pages)

"Situating the close relationship between Latin and music within its historical context, this volume presents an overview of Latin and music in the educational system of the time - schools, choir schools and universities - and the development and pervasive influence of musical humanism. This influence is seen primarily in the writings of music theorists, the documents of dedication found in music publications and above all in the settings of classical and Neo-Latin texts as well as in some liturgical and extra-liturgical ones. Discussion of this repertoire forms the centre of the volume. The emphasis is on practical matters: the study of Latin and music, and the music's composition, performance and reception"-- Page 4 of cover

Table of Contents

Background: Ancient Roman, early Christian and medieval music -- Music and Latin in early modern education : the development and pervasive influence of musical humanism. Choir schools, grammar schools, private tutors, universities, and evidence for a basic knowledge of Latin and musical competence in a domestic context ; Dedicatory documents to music publications and the poetry written by composers : the philological approach ; Music treatises, their purpose and use, the tensions between musical content and standards of Latinity, and the increasing preference for use of the vernacular -- Musical settings of classical verse : case studies. Vergil ; Horace ; Martial and Seneca ; Musical settings of composite and secular non-Latin verse : Catullus, Vergil, Ovid and their sixteenth-century imitators : The Moralia of Jacobus Handl -- Music in neo-Latin drama : Germany and Austria -- Musical settings of liturgical and extra-liturgical Latin texts and their context : the Mass and the canonical hours : case studies. The sixteenth century ; The eighteenth century -- Conclusion -- Further research.