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Josquin's Rome: Hearing and Composing in the Sistine Chapel
Jesse Rodin
In the late 15th century the newly built Sistine Chapel was home to a vigorous culture of musical composition and performance. Josquin des Prez stood at its center, singing and composing for the pope’s private choir. This book offers a new reading of Josquin’s Roman compositions in light of the repertory he and his fellow papal singers performed from the chapel’s singers’ box. Comprising the single largest surviving corpus of late 15th-century sacred music, these pieces served as a backdrop for elaborately choreographed liturgical ceremonies—a sonic analogue ... Read more
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