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

"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 in...

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