Masses for the Sistine Chapel
Vatican City, Biblioteca Aposotlica Vaticana, Cappella Sistina, MS 14
Masses for the Sistine Chapel
Vatican City, Biblioteca Aposotlica Vaticana, Cappella Sistina, MS 14
Donated in the late fifteenth century to the papal choir, the musical manuscript Cappella Sistina14 reflects a new style of mass composition used by some of the era’s most noted composers. Masses for the Sistine Chapel makes the complete contents of the Cappella Sistina14—held in the Vatican Library—available for the first time.
Featuring fifteen masses and four mass fragments, this volume includes works by such composers as Guillaume Du Fay, Johannes Ockeghem, and Antoine Busnoys. In a comprehensive introduction and critical commentary on each work, Richard Sherr places the choirbook in its historical context, describing its physical makeup as well as the repertory. Sherr’s critical edition of this celebrated manuscript finally provides the insight necessary to inform future performances and recordings of its influential contents.
616 pages | 8 halftones, 7 musical examples, 5 tables | 9 x 12 | © 2010
Monuments of Renaissance Music
Music: General Music
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Illustrations from Cappella Sistina 14 follow p.00.
Part One: Introduction
I Masses for the Sistine Chapel
II Physical Description of the Manuscript
III Composers and Repertory
The Composers
The Repertory
Tinctoris and CS 14
IV Other Observations
Signs of Use
The Manuscript as an Exemplar
V Date and Provenance
Date
Hypotheses about the Provenance
Two Clues to the Provenance
The Decorated Initials
A New Hypothesis
Part Two: Concordance and Commentary
VI List of Sources and Bibliography
A. Prints
B. Manuscripts
C. Literature and Modern Editions
D. Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Works
E. Other Abbreviations
VII Commentaries on the Individual Compositions
Part Three: The Edition
VIII Editorial Principles
The Transcriptions:
1. Kyrie pascale Anonymous
2. Kyrie tempore pascali Anonymous
3. Kyrie and Gloria de Beata Virgine Jo[hannes] Wreede brugensis
4. Gloria de Beata Virgine Anonymous
5. Missa Ave regina celorum Gaspar [van Weerbeke]
6. Missa Se la face ay pale [Guillaume] Dufay
7. Missa Spiritus almus [Petrus] De Domarto
8. Missa Eterne rex altissime Vincenet
9. Missa Dixerunt discipuli Eloy [d’Amerval]
10. Missa Sine nomine Anonymous
11. Missa Ecce ancilla domini [Guillaume] Dufay
12. Missa Ecce ancilla domini [Johannes] Regis
13. Missa L’homme armé, Kyrie and Gloria [Guillaume] Dufay
14. Missa L’homme armé [Antoine] Busnois
15. Missa Dum sacrum mysterium [L’homme armé] [Johannes] Regis
16. Missa L’homme armé [Firmin?] Caron
17. Missa L’homme armé G[uillaume] Faugues
18. Missa De plus en plus [Johannes] Ockeghem
19. Missa Puis que je vis Anonymous
Index of Composers
Index of Compositions
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