Latin and Music in the Early Modern Era

Robert Forgács (Ph.D. 1997, University of New South Wales), is musicologist and Neo-Latinist. He is the author of Dressler’s Praecepta musicae poeticae (Illinois, 2007), and has published widely on Dressler, Philomathes, Orlando di Lasso, and music for 18th-century Neo-Latin Drama.

• Latin and Music in the Early Modern EraEducation, Theory, Composition, Performance and ReceptionAbstractKeywords1 Introduction2 Background: Ancient Roman, Early Christian and Medieval Music3 Music and Latin in Early Modern Education: The Development and Pervasive Influence of Musical Humanism4 Musical Settings of Classical Verse: Case Studies5 Music in Neo-Latin Drama: Germany and Austria6 Musical Settings of Liturgical and Extra-Liturgical Latin Texts and Their Context: The Mass and the Canonical Hours: Case Studies7 Conclusion8 Future Research8 References8 Index

''Scholars from disciplines as diverse as music history, music theory and composition, classical reception, Renaissance and early modern history, Latin philology and literature as well as Catholic and Protestant theology (especially liturgy) will find this little volume on Latin and Music in the Early Modern Era instructive and enriching. [...] Forgács’ work constitutes a solid piece of scholarship that contributes a valuable introduction to a little-studied subject which deserves due attention in the disciplines listed at the outset.'' Andreas Kramarz BMCR 2022.02.05