商品簡介
Bennett (music, Case Western Reserve University) has performed an excellent work of scholarship in his in-depth study of the seventeenth-century manuscript of Latin religious music known only as MS Vma Res. 571. He begins with the physical evidence of the manuscript, compiled at a time when music books were increasingly printed. The watermarks and content of the paper are analyzed in the effort to establish the provenance of the work. Bennet then examines the music, only a small part of it attributed to a composer. In painstaking steps, he assembles an argument for the compiler of the text being Andre Pechon, maitre de musique at the church of St.-Germain-l'Auxerrois in Paris and later at Meaux Cathedral. He then makes a good case for much of the anonymous music having been composed by Antoine Boesset. As well as proposing a solution to a musical mystery, Bennet also sheds light on the political use of religious music in the period following the Wars of Religion. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Peter Bennet is Assistant Professor of Music at Case Western Reserve University, USA.