Medieval ritual and early modern music : the devotional practice of lauda singing in late-Renaissance Italy / by Eyolf Østrem and Nils Holger Petersen.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-340) and index.
Contents
The religious and ritual context of the earlier Italian lauda -- The conceptual universe of lauda practice -- Musical style and background of the polyphonic lauda -- "Medieval" devotion and musical "avant garde" -- The polyphonic lauda in the seventeenth century -- The historiography of opera reconsidered -- Outlook : medieval ritual reception and musical novelty -- Appendices. Longo : Lodi e canzonette (1608) ; Archivo dell'Opera di S. Maria del Fiore : Arch. mus II, 55 and supplementing texts.