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Situating the close relationship between Latin and music within its historical context, this volume presents an overview of Latin and music in the educational system of the time – schools, choir schools and universities – and the development and pervasive influence of musical humanism. This influence is seen primarily in the writings of music theorists, the documents of dedication found in music publications and above all in the settings of classical and Neo-Latin texts as well as in some liturgical and extra-liturgical ones. Discussion of this repertoire forms the centre of the volume. The emphasis is on practical matters: the study of Latin and music, and the music’s composition, performance and reception.
Price: $94.00
Pages: 102
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill Research Perspectives in Latinity and Classical Reception in the Early Modern Period
Publication Date:
01 April 2021
ISBN: 9789004463301
Format: Paperback
''Scholars from disciplines as diverse as music history, music theory and composition, classical reception, Renaissance and early modern history, Latin philology and literature as well as Catholic and Protestant theology (especially liturgy) will find this little volume on Latin and Music in the Early Modern Era instructive and enriching. [...] Forgács’ work constitutes a solid piece of scholarship that contributes a valuable introduction to a little-studied subject which deserves due attention in the disciplines listed at the outset.'' Andreas Kramarz BMCR 2022.02.05
Robert Forgács (Ph.D. 1997, University of New South Wales), is musicologist and Neo-Latinist. He is the author of Dressler’s Praecepta musicae poeticae (Illinois, 2007), and has published widely on Dressler, Philomathes, Orlando di Lasso, and music for 18th-century Neo-Latin Drama.