Born for the Muses by Wegman
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.-
Time in Indian Music
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Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745)
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Haydn and the Enlightenment
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Climb Into the Bell Tower
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Music Criticism in Vienna 1896-1897
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The Chromatic Fourth During Four Centuries of Music
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Haydn's Keyboard Music
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Henry Lawes
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The Finale in Western Instrumental Music
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Handel and his Singers
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Music in Renaissance Ferrara, 1400-1505
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Courtly Love Songs of Medieval France
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The Service-Books of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis
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Handel's Muse
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Songs of Mortals, Dialogues of the Gods
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Music in the English Courtly Masque, 1604-1640
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Fortepianos and their Music
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The Oratorio in Bologna 1650-1730
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The Sound of Medieval Song
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North German Church Music in the Age of Buxtehude
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Celestial Sirens
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Mensuration and Proportion Signs
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Four and Twenty Fiddlers
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The Music of Hans Pfitzner
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Music Theory in Seventeenth-Century England
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Agostino Agazzari and Music at Siena Cathedral, 1597-1641
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Satie the Bohemian
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Haydn's Symphonic Forms
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Salamone Rossi
without doubt the definitive biography of Obrecht.masterful study * Journal of the Royal Musical Association *
a splendid survey of the masses of Jacob Obrecht...he also provides a reevaluation of Obrecht's biography, which includes substantial new material concerning Willem Obrecht (Jacob's father), one of the leading trumpet players of the mid-fifteenth century. In so doing, Wegman provides us with a picture of the background and social context of a 15th-century musical family unique in its richness of detail. * The Historic Brass Society Journal *
Wegman's book represents an enormous stride in Obrecht research and places it on a more solid footing than any previous study...The new biographical information in this study is significant...In this book Wegman creates a vivid, well-documented portrait of a master composer whose life-long serach for security, patronage and professional recognition was ultimately frustrated by early death. * Plainsong and Medieval Music 4.1 *
fine writing...Wegman has brilliantly and imaginatively put forth the most comprehensive and coherent profile of a late fifteen-century composer available to date...We are much in Rob Wegman's debt for a work that will prove central to our understanding of composers and their works at that crucial juncture of the late fifteenth century. * Journal of the American Musicological Society *
Wegman's book represents an enormous stride in Obrecht research and places it on a more solid footing than any previous study. The new biographical information in this study is significant. * Sixteenth Century Journal XXVII/2 (1996) *
a splendid survey of the masses of Jacob Obrecht...he also provides a reevaluation of Obrecht's biography, which includes substantial new material concerning Willem Obrecht (Jacob's father), one of the leading trumpet players of the mid-fifteenth century. In so doing, Wegman provides us with a picture of the background and social context of a 15th-century musical family unique in its richness of detail. * The Historic Brass Society Journal *
Wegman's book represents an enormous stride in Obrecht research and places it on a more solid footing than any previous study...The new biographical information in this study is significant...In this book Wegman creates a vivid, well-documented portrait of a master composer whose life-long serach for security, patronage and professional recognition was ultimately frustrated by early death. * Plainsong and Medieval Music 4.1 *
fine writing...Wegman has brilliantly and imaginatively put forth the most comprehensive and coherent profile of a late fifteen-century composer available to date...We are much in Rob Wegman's debt for a work that will prove central to our understanding of composers and their works at that crucial juncture of the late fifteenth century. * Journal of the American Musicological Society *
Wegman's book represents an enormous stride in Obrecht research and places it on a more solid footing than any previous study. The new biographical information in this study is significant. * Sixteenth Century Journal XXVII/2 (1996) *
Rob C. Wegman is Associate Professor of Music at Princeton University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198166504 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198166508 |
| Title | Born for the Muses |
| Author | Wegman |
| Series | Oxford Monographs On Music |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1997-01-02 |
| Number of pages | 434 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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