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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      13 March 2019
      28 March 2019
      ISBN:
      9781107294301
      9781107054424
      9781107676213
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107294301
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.72kg, 276 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (244 x 170 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.478kg, 278 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Seventeenth-Century Music, Medieval and Renaissance Music, Music, Music Criticism
      Series:
      Music in Context
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    Subjects:
    Seventeenth-Century Music, Medieval and Renaissance Music, Music, Music Criticism
    Series:
    Music in Context
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    Victoria's Requiem is among the best-loved and most-performed musical works of the Renaissance, and is often held to be 'a Requiem for an age', representing the summation of golden-age Spanish polyphony. Yet it has been the focus of surprisingly little research. Owen Rees's multifaceted study brings together the historical and ritual contexts for the work's genesis, the first detailed musical analysis of the Requiem itself, and the long story of its circulation and reception. Victoria composed this music in 1603 for the exequies of María of Austria, and oversaw its publication two years later. A rich variety of contemporary documentation allows these events - and the nature of music in Habsburg exequies - to be reconstructed vividly. Rees then locates Victoria's music within the context of a vast international repertory of Requiems, much of it previously unstudied, and identifies the techniques which render this work so powerfully distinctive and coherent.

    Awards

    Winner, 2020 Robert M. Stevenson Award, American Musicological Society

    Reviews

    ‘In his wide-ranging and masterful study, Owen Rees examines Victoria’s Requiem as both text and icon. He does so with a scholar’s nose for forensic minutiae, an analyst’s eye for the telling detail, and a choral director’s ear for precision and rigour. His study is a model of its kind … Without a doubt, Rees’s study of Victoria’s Officium defunctorum will help bring us closer to an understanding of this astonishing work as a Requiem for a Habsburg empress and as a Requiem for us.’

    Michael Noone Source: Early Music History

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