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Alessandro Grandi. Il primo libro de motetti a due, tre, quattro, cinque, & otto voci, con una Messa a Quattro (1610). Edidunt Dennis Collins & Steven Saunders. (Alessandro Grandi Opera [...]

Luca Marenzio's sacred music, representing about 70 extant Latin pieces, is discussed in relation to the Roman context. Evidence of Marenzio's freelance work for liturgical and paraliturgical celebrations is examined in relation to his surviving compositions.

As befits the dedicatee, this is a most impressive volume with an all-star cast of authors, all connected as students or colleagues to Lewis Lockwood. The list of twenty-seven authors [...]

Two articles in the November 1994 issue of Early music raised questions of performance practice in 16th-century Rome, giving evidence which, on the face of it, seemed irreconcilable.(1) Richard Sherr [...]

These two volumes present the texts read at the conference 'Gallus Carniolus and the European Renaissance' held at Ljubljana in 1991 to mark the 400th anniversary of the composer's death. [...]

For most of the past 400 years Palestrina has enjoyed the status of a musical icon, being regarded more as a great religious composer, working only for God and the [...]

The activities of the 16th century Spanish singer-composers Tomas Luis de Victoria and Francisco de Soto are indicated in the archives of the Archconfraternity of the Resurrection in Rome. The archives further indicate details of instrumentation and usage of singers in performances for feast days. Many lists of performers and instruments are in the archives, although Victoria is not directly indicated on any of the lists.

'Steel horseflies into golden bees . . . we drown in honey': these are the opening and closing lines of a specially-written and insightful poem by Robert Kelly which prefaces [...]

The writing of music history depends on a knowledge of both the particular and the general. Music historians have sometimes been criticized for paying too much attention to the former; [...]

Luca Marenzio: the Career of a Musician between the Renaissance and the Counter-Reformation. By Marco Bizzarini. Translated by James Chater. Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003. [xvii, 370 p. [...]

ed. Maria Antonella Balsano & Giuseppe Collisani. 'Musiche rinascimentali siciliane', xvii. (Olschki, Florence, 1996. ISBN 88-222-4462-1.) A native of Alcara, near Messina, Vincenzo Gallo succeeded the Spaniard Sebastian Raval as [...]

ed. Jose Ma. Llorens Cistero & Karl H. Muller-Lance. 'Monumentos de la musica espafiola', li. (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas. Institucio 'Mila, i Fontanals', Barcelona, 1996. ISBN 84-00-07601-X.) In 1993 [...]

By Robert L. Kendrick. pp. xxi + 556. 'Oxford Monographs on Music'. (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996, £55. ISBN 0-19-816408-4.) As someone whose early musical training was entrusted to nuns, I [...]

In his introduction to Papal Patronage and the Music of St. Peter's, 1380-1513, Christopher A. Reynolds admits to having been occupied with St. Peter's basilica in Rome for twenty years. [...]

This book presents an iconography of Palestrina in the broadest sense: it is much more than a record of the composer's portraits, or of paintings and engravings associated with him, [...]

Fifty years on, the effects of World War II on musical source materials are still being felt. Despite recent successes in bringing long-missing manuscripts to light, much remains to be [...]

By David Crook. pp. xv + 295. (Princeton University Press, 1994, $55/ 40£. ISBN 0-692-03614-4.) On 23 December 1559, Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria's agent in Vienna wrote him a [...]

These are the first two issues from a new series, whose overall editor is Graham Dixon, which plans to cover music associated with major musical cities in the 16th and [...]

These are the first two issues from a new series, whose overall editor is Graham Dixon, which plans to cover music associated with major musical cities in the 16th and [...]

Jacob Handl (Jacobus Gallus) is one of those composers who are generally known by just one or two pieces: in his case, the long-admired 'Ecce quomodo moritur justus', or the [...]

This English translation of the late Dragotin Cvetko's monograph on Jacobus Gallus (Jacob Handl) was published to coincide with the quartercentenary of the composer's death in 1991. It was first [...]