{"product_id":"josquins-rome-hearing-and-composing-in-the-sistine-chapel-9780197619667","title":"Josquin's Rome: Hearing and Composing in the Sistine Chapel","description":"In the late fifteenth century the newly built Sistine Chapel was home to a vigorous culture of musical composition and performance. Josquin des Prez stood at its center, singing and composing for the pope's private choir. \u003cem\u003eJosquin's Rome\u003c\/em\u003e offers a new reading of the composer's work in light of\u003cbr\u003ethe repertory he and his fellow papal singers performed from the chapel's singers' box. Comprising the single largest surviving corpus of late fifteenth-century sacred music, these pieces served as a backdrop for elaborately choreographed liturgical ceremonies--a sonic analogue to the frescoes by\u003cbr\u003eBotticelli, Perugino, and their contemporaries that adorn the chapel's walls. Author Jesse Rodin uses a comparative approach to uncover this aesthetically and intellectually rich musical tradition. He confronts longstanding problems concerning the authenticity and chronology of Josquin's music while\u003cbr\u003eoffering nuanced readings of scandalously understudied works by the composer's contemporaries. The book further contextualizes Josquin by locating intersections between his music and the wider soundscape of the Cappella Sistina. Central to Rodin's argument is the idea that these pieces lived in\u003cbr\u003eperformance. The author puts his interpretations into practice through a series of exquisite recordings by his ensemble, Cut Circle (available both on the companion website and as a CD from Musique en Wallonie). \u003cem\u003eJosquin's Rome\u003c\/em\u003e is an essential resource for musicologists, scholars of the Italian\u003cbr\u003eRenaissance, and enthusiasts of early music.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJesse Rodin\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of Music at Stanford University. He is the editor of a volume of L'homme armé masses for the New Josquin Edition (2014) and co-editor of The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music (2015). His articles have appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Music \u0026amp; Letters, Acta Musicologica, and other major journals. Current projects include a series of recordings devoted to the songs of Johannes Ockeghem and his contemporaries (Musique en Wallonie) and a monograph on form in fifteenth-century music.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50383164080402,"sku":"9780197619667","price":51.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_483a2ae5-f4f3-4fae-8501-91d387be2fd0.jpg?v=1728779847","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/josquins-rome-hearing-and-composing-in-the-sistine-chapel-9780197619667","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}