The facade and the back of a solemn musical architecture: the structure of Epicedion Harmonicum by Jacobus Gallus (Jacob Handl) and its unresolved enigma

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  • Marc Desmet Faculty of Arts, Letters, and Languages of Jean Monnet University, Saint-Etienne (FR)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3986/dmd10.2.07

Keywords:

Jacobus Handl – Gallus, Caspar Schönauer, epicedium

Abstract

Upon the death of Zabrdovice Abbot Caspar Schönauer, Jakob Handl published his Epicedion Harmonicum in 1589. This work, which has heretofore been viewed as a single three-part composition, consists actually of three independent compositions published in one volume. Their independence is indicated by their texts, musical characteristics, and the historical circumstances surrounding their creation.

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Author Biography

Marc Desmet, Faculty of Arts, Letters, and Languages of Jean Monnet University, Saint-Etienne (FR)

PhD, musicology, a lecturer at the Faculty of Arts, Letters, and Languages of Jean Monnet University, Saint-Etienne (FR), a researcher at the Institut of the History of Classical Thought, CNRS.

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2015-05-21

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Desmet, M. (2015). The facade and the back of a solemn musical architecture: the structure of Epicedion Harmonicum by Jacobus Gallus (Jacob Handl) and its unresolved enigma. De Musica Disserenda, 10(2), 101–123. https://doi.org/10.3986/dmd10.2.07

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