The Lucca Choirbook: Lucca, Archivio di Stato, MS 238; Lucca, Archivio Arcivescovile, MS 97; Pisa, Archivo Arcivescovile, Biblioteca Maffi, Cartella 11/III ... and Early Renaissance Music in Facsimile) |  | Creator: Reinhard Strohm
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Category: Book
List Price: $185.00
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Sales Rank: 898913
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Number Of Items: 1
ISBN: 0226496392
Dewey Decimal Number: 781
EAN: 9780226496399
ASIN: 0226496392
Publication Date: November 15, 2008 (New: This Week)
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DIVP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"More than forty years ago in the state archives of Lucca, Italy, musicologist Reinhard Strohm noticed that bindings on some of the books were unusual: they consisted of the pages of a centuries-old music manuscript. In the following years, Strohm worked with the archivists to remove these leaves and reassemble as much as possible of the original manuscript, a major cultural recovery now known as IThe Lucca Choirbook/I.BRBRThe recovered volume comprises what remains of a gigantic cathedral codex commissioned in Bruges around 1463 and containing English, Franco-Flemish, and Italian sacred music of the fifteenth century#8212;including works by the celebrated composers Guillaume Du Fay and Henricus Isaac.BRBRThis facsimile of the choirbook includes all the known leaves, ordered according to their proper placement in the original codex. In the introduction, Strohm tells the fascinating story of this choirbook, identifying its early users and reconstructing its travel from Bruges to Lucca. /P/DIV
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