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Title

Gaspar van Weerbeke : new perspectives on his life and music / edited by Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl and Paul Kolb.

Publication

• Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2019]
• ©2019

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Additional Authors

• Lindmayr-Brandl, Andrea
• Kolb, Paul Lawrence, 1986-
• Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance.

Description

332 pages : illustrations (some color), music; 29 cm.

Summary

This book presents a collection of essays on the life and works of Gaspar van Weerbeke, one of the most successful Franco-Flemish musicians of the second half of the fifteenth century, revisiting his biography, reception, and compositional output. Gaspar van Weerbeke was one of the most successful Franco-Flemish musicians of the second half of the fifteenth century, holding prestigious positions in the Sforza court in Milan, the Burgundian court chapel, and the papal chapel in Rome. His compositions were widely transmitted in manuscript and print sources throughout Europe, and he was one of the best represented composers in the early Italian music prints of Ottaviano Petrucci. Despite the high esteem of his contemporaries, Gaspar has up to now played only a peripheral role in Renaissance music historiography. This book is the first collection of research articles dedicated exclusively to the life and works of Gaspar. While the basic facts of Gaspar's life have long been known, the book fleshes out the details, presenting a more differentiated and complex picture of his biography. Analysis of a wide range of Gaspar's compositional output leads to new interpretations of his approach to different genres: masses, motets, and motet cycles. His relatively small quantity of songs is revisited in light of the confusion - both then and now - over the meaning and validity of their attributions. This book seeks to promote further research on this composer and place him in his appropriate place in music history.

Series Statement

Collection "Epitome musical,", 2565-8166

Uniform Title

Collection "Epitome musical."

Subject

• Weerbeke, Gaspar van, approximately 1445-
• Weerbeke, Gaspar van, approximately 1445- > Criticism and interpretation
• Composers > Netherlands > Biography
• Composers
• Netherlands

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• "Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance"--Page facing title page.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-322) and indexes.

Contents

Seven reasons for Italy : Gaspar van Weerbeke's career between Flanders, Milan, and Rome / Klaus Pietschmann -- Weerbeke in Milan : court and colleagues / Paul A. Merkley -- Belle promesse e facti nulla : a letter to Weerbeke and the treatment of singers in Florence and Milan / Sean Gallagher -- Gaspar depicted? : Leonardo's portrait of a musician / Laure Fagnart -- Gaspar van Weerbeke as a member of the Burgundian Chapel / Grantley McDonald -- Gaspar van Weerbeke and France : the poetic witness of Guillaume Crétin / Jeannette DiBernardo Jones -- "Under the radar" or "Caught in the crossfire? : the music of Gaspar van Weerbeke and its reception history / Fabrice Fitch -- Weerbeke's stylistic repertoire : new insights from the Marian motets / Agnese Pavanello -- The cycle as modular composition : the Motetti missales of Gaspar van Weerbeke / Fabrice Fitch -- Another "most laudable competition"? : Gaspar, Josquin, Regis, and the Virgin in distress / Wolfgang Fuhrmann -- A new mass and its implications for Gaspar's late mass style / Paul Kolb -- Petrucci's Gaspar : sources, editing, and reception / Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl -- Gaspar and Japart : the secular works, with particular reference to Basevi 2442 and a word about Fridolin Sicher / David Fallows -- Caught in the web of texts : the chanson family bon vin/bon temps and the disputed identity of "Gaspart" / Carlo Bosi -- La stangetta reconsidered : Weerbeke, Isaac, and the late fifteenth-century tricinium / Eric Jas.

Call Number

JMG 20-242

ISBN

• 2503584543
• 9782503584546

OCLC

1085151767

Title

Gaspar van Weerbeke : new perspectives on his life and music / edited by Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl and Paul Kolb.

Publisher

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

still image

notated music

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Collection "Epitome musical,", 2565-8166

Collection "Epitome musical."

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-322) and indexes.

Added Author

Lindmayr-Brandl, Andrea, editor.

Kolb, Paul Lawrence, 1986- editor.

Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance.

Research Call Number

JMG 20-242