Baccusi: Complete Masses, Part 1
Series: Renaissance Publisher: A-R Editions
This edition is part of the collection Baccusi: Complete Masses
Complete Masses, Part 1
Missarum cum quinque et sex vocibus liber primus (1570)
Edited by Alessandra Ignesti, Remi Chiu
R188 Baccusi: Complete Masses, Part 1
978-1-9872-0903-7
Full Score (2024)
8.5x11, xxiv + 245 pp.
$250.00
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This six-volume series of masses brings to light for the first time the work of the highly accomplished yet little-known Northern Italian composer Ippolito Baccusi (d. 1608 or 1609), maestro di cappella in Spilimbergo, Venice, Mantua, and Verona; friend of Giaches de Wert; and teacher of Lodovico Zacconi, who ranked him among the finest contrapuntists of the time. This edition includes an updated biography of Baccusi that draws upon archival documentation to present new details about his life and career.
The four masses of the Missarum cum quinque et sex vocibus liber primus (1570)—three by Baccusi and one by his colleague Giovanni Battista Falcidio—are based on polyphonic models by Nicolas Gombert, Cipriano de Rore, and Orlando di Lasso and were composed during the turbulence of the War of Cyprus (1570–73). The composers’ ingenious choice and treatment of their models reflect a desperate desire for divine protection against ferocious enemies—a relevant theme for any age.
Missarum cum quinque et sex vocibus liber primus (1570)
Missa Illuminare Hierusalem (a 5)
KyrieGloriaCredoSanctusAgnus Dei
Missa Aspice Domine (a 5)
KyrieGloriaCredoSanctusAgnus Dei (a 6)
Missa Tribularer (a 5), Giovanni Battista Falcidio
KyrieGloriaCredoSanctusAgnus Dei
Missa Standomi un giorno (a 6)
KyrieGloriaCredoSanctusAgnus Dei
Appendix: Models
Aspice Domine, Nicolas Gombert
Tribularer, si nescirem, Cipriano de Rore
Standomi un giorno, Orlando di Lasso
Alessandra Ignesti obtained a Ph.D. in musicology from McGill University with a dissertation on the first book of masses of Ippolito Baccusi (2022). She has held postdoctoral positions at KU Leuven and the University of Oslo. She is currently a collaborator on the project SCRIBEMUS: Scribes of Musical Cultures at the University of Pavia (Cremona). Her research interests include plainchant, music theory, and Renaissance sacred polyphony with a special focus on imitation masses.
Remi Chiu is professor of musicology at Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University and specialist in Renaissance music and the history of medicine. He is the author of Plague and Music in the Renaissance (Cambridge University Press) and editor of Songs in Times of Plague (Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance, vol. 172). His most recent articles on music and health have appeared in Frontiers in Psychology, Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques, and Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences.