Isaac Posch «diditus Eois Hesperiisque plagis – Praised in the lands of Dawn and Sunset»
©2009
Monographs
352 Pages
Summary
Isaac Posch (c. 1591-1622/23), «praised in the lands of Dawn and Sunset», was an intriguing early seventeenth-century composer, one of those still little-researched Kleinmeister who forged the musical culture now considered as a European heritage. Between 1618 and 1623 Posch committed to print in Regensburg and Nuremberg three musical collections: two of instrumental dance music and one with small-scale Latin concertato motets. The dances of his print entitled Musicalische Ehrenfreudt were intended for actual dancing, a practical aspect that the book also considers. Taken as a whole, Posch’s music constitutes a most interesting instance of the merging of elements taken from various European styles: German, Italian and even English. This monograph is a revised and enlarged English version of the Slovenian original, first published in 1999 and based on the author’s award-winning dissertation at the University of Ljubljana.
Details
- Pages
- 352
- Publication Year
- 2009
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783631575932
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- 17th-century music instrumental dances motets
- Published
- Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2009. 352 pp., num. fig., tables and examples of notes
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