Giovanni Gabrieli and His Contemporaries

Richard Charteris is Professor in Historical Musicology at the University of Sydney, Australia

• Contents: Introduction; Newly discovered manuscript parts and annotations in a copy of Giovanni Gabrieli's Symphoniae sacrae (1615); Giovanni Gabrieli's Sacrae symphoniae (Venice, 1597): some rediscovered partbooks with new evidence about performance practice; A new keyboard work by Giovanni Gabrieli and the relevance of its compositional technique; Autographs of John Coprario; 'Fuerunt mihi lacrymae': Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder or the Younger?; A rediscovered manuscript source with some previously unknown works by John Jenkins, William Lawes and Benjamin Rogers; New motets by Hans Leo Hassler: indications of second thoughts; A newly discovered songbook in Poland with works by Henry Lawes and his contemporaries; An early-17th-century collection of sacred vocal music and its Augsburg connections; New connections between Eastern Europe and works by Philips, Dowland, Marais and others; A neglected anthology of sacred vocal music dating from the 16th century; Addenda and corrigenda; Indexes.

'Most musicians (especially brass players) and music students are familiar with some of the works by Giovanni Gabrieli and some aspects of his life, but few are aware of Gabrieli’s impressive total output or of his influence on the development of compositional style in the early 17th century. Fortunately, Richard Charteris does. He has been working on Gabrieli for much of his life, and this book contains 11 superb essays on the subject that he published between 1975 and 2009... If you want to know more about Gabrieli, this would be a good book to own.' Early Music America 'The articles are the product of meticulous research.' The Consort