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Giovanni Gabrieli (ca. 1555-1612)

A Thematic Catalogue of his Music with a Guide to the Source Materials and Translations of His Vocal Texts

Richard Charteris
1996

323 pp.

0 illustrations

ISBN: 978-0945193661

hardback $70.00


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""Giovanni Gabrieli (c.1555-1612) is the greatest Venetian composer of the late Renaissance and one of the most significant figures of the period. Since the time when Richard Charteris was invited by the American Institute of Musicology to edit Giovanni Gabrieli's complete works in twelve volumes for the series Corpus mensurabitis music’ he has uncovered a considerable number of previously unknown works by this composer and discovered a vast quantity of hitherto unknown sources of h is music. This thematic catalogue presents data about these discoveries and many others besides collating an enormous amount of widely-scattered information.

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Richard Charteris: Richard Charteris is Professor in Historical Musicology at the University of Sydney, and Director of the Centre of Early Venetian Music. He has produced a considerable number of research publications, including musicological studies, critical editions and refereed articles published in Europe, the UK, and the USA.