The Requiem of Tomás Luis de Victoria

1603

Owen Rees (University of Oxford)

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English

Cambridge University Press
28 March 2019

Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750); Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; European history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700

Series: Music in Context

Victoria's Requiem is among the best-loved and most-performed musical works of the Renaissance, and is often held to be 'a Requiem for an age', representing the summation of golden-age Spanish polyphony. Yet it has been the focus of surprisingly little research. Owen Rees's multifaceted study brings together the historical and ritual contexts for the work's genesis, the first detailed musical analysis of the Requiem itself, and the long story of its circulation and reception. Victoria composed this music in 1603 for the exequies of María of Austria, and oversaw its publication two years later. A rich variety of contemporary documentation allows these events - and the nature of music in Habsburg exequies - to be reconstructed vividly. Rees then locates Victoria's music within the context of a vast international repertory of Requiems, much of it previously unstudied, and identifies the techniques which render this work so powerfully distinctive and coherent.

By: Owen Rees (University of Oxford)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 253mm, Width: 180mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 720g
ISBN: 9781107054424
ISBN 10: 1107054427
Series: Music in Context
Pages: 276
Publication Date: 28 March 2019
Audience: Adult education , College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: 'Requiem for an age'?; 1. Chaplain of the Empress; 2. María's exequies in context; 3. Publishing the Officium Defunctorum; 4. Fashioning the Requiem; 5. 'The crowning work of a great genius'; Epilogue: Requiem for our age?

Owen Rees is Professor of Music at the University of Oxford, and Fellow in Music at The Queen's College, University of Oxford. He specialises in Spanish and Portuguese sacred music of the 'golden age' and has published on the principal composers of the period – Morales, Guerrero, and Victoria – and on numerous other repertories, genres, and sources from the Iberian Peninsula.

Reviews for The Requiem of Tomás Luis de Victoria (1603)

'In his wide-ranging and masterful study, Owen Rees examines Victoria's Requiem as both text and icon. He does so with a scholar's nose for forensic minutiae, an analyst's eye for the telling detail, and a choral director's ear for precision and rigour. His study is a model of its kind … Without a doubt, Rees's study of Victoria's Officium defunctorum will help bring us closer to an understanding of this astonishing work as a Requiem for a Habsburg empress and as a Requiem for us.' Michael Noone, Early Music History