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OverviewNeither Spem in alium, the widely acclaimed ‘songe of fortie partes’ by Thomas Tallis, nor Alessandro Striggio’s forty-part Mass is the largest-scale counterpoint work in Western music. The actual winner is Gregorio Ballabene, a relatively unknown Roman maestro di cappella, a contemporary of Giovanni Paisiello, Joseph Haydn and Luigi Boccherini, who composed in forty-eight parts for twelve choirs. His Mass saw only a public rehearsal and was never performed liturgically despite all of Ballabene’s efforts to promote it. On closer inspection, however, the work deserves special consideration as a piece of outstanding combinatory creativity – the product of a talent able to conceive, structure and realise a project of colossal dimensions. It might even be claimed that if Charles Burney had gained knowledge of it, all derogatory comments by nineteenth-century music historians would not have succeeded in extinguishing the interest of later generations. Ballabene’s Mass has remained completely unstudied until today, even though the score survives in prominent collections. This study offers, for the first time, a historical and analytical perspective on this overlooked manifestation of a very individual musical intelligence. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Florian BassaniPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9781032128931ISBN 10: 1032128933 Pages: 120 Publication Date: 25 September 2023 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Twelve-choir performances 2. The presence of a glorious past 3. Burney’s ‘Mass’ 4. Ballabene and his Mass in Martini’s correspondence 5. The ‘rehearsal’ and its outcome 6. Consequences for Ballabene’s professional advancement 7. Martini’s approbation 8. Important compositional features 9. Pitoni’s Mass 10. Ballabene and the twilight of an era 11. Fame and posthumous fame 12. The history of the score 13. Unfortunate anachronism or accomplishment of the Roman Baroque? Appendix I: Documents (in chronological order) Appendix II: Documented copies of Ballabene’s Mass BibliographyReviewsAuthor InformationDr Florian Bassani is a lecturer at the Institute of Musicology, University of Bern, Switzerland. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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