Born for the Muses : The Life and Masses of Jacob Obrecht

Name: Born for the Muses
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780198166504
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ISBN: 9780198166504

by Wegman

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Oxford Monographs on Music

ISBN-10 0198166508

ISBN-13 9780198166504

Publisher Oxford University Press

Imprint Clarendon Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 5th, 1996

Print length 432 Pages

Weight 757 grams

Dimensions 23.40 x 15.70 x 2.40 cms

Product Classification: Europe 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599 Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600)Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups Art music, orchestral and formal music Composers and songwriters Biography: arts & entertainment Biography: arts and entertainment

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Drawing on new archival sources and a recently discovered portrait, Wegmen explores the social and cultural conditions that shaped the life and musicianship of Jacob Obrecht. He offers a new assessment of the creative achievement and historical significance of one of the most prominent composers of the late fifteenth century.

Son of a town trumpeter, Jacob Obrecht became one of the most prominent composers in Europe in the late fifteenth century. In Born for the Muses, Rob Webman enlarges our picture of the social and cultural conditions that framed his world, drawing on a wealth of new archival sources and a newly discovered dated portrait that sheds light on his developmnet as a composer. Obrecht''s greatest contribution lay in the field of mass composition. In a penetrating stylistic analysis, Wegman treats each of the thirty-odd surviving masses as a historical record, tracing influences and establishing a rich context for the development of Obrecht''s musical language. This new assessment of his creative achievement and historical significance entirely changes the face of Obrecht studies and of late fifteenth-century music in general.

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