The Requiem of Tomás Luis de Victoria (1603) Rees Hardback 9781107054424

The Requiem of Tom\u00E1s Luis de Victoria 1603\nby Owen Rees\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Owen Rees\nTitle: The Requiem of Tom\u00E1s Luis de Victoria 1603\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Composers and songwriters\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2019\nISBN-13: 9781107054424\nISBN-10: 1107054427\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nVictoria''s Requiem is among the best-loved and most-performed musical works of the Renaissance, and is often held to be ''a Requiem for an age'', representing the summation of golden-age Spanish polyphony. Yet it has been the focus of surprisingly little research. Owen Rees''s multifaceted study brings together the historical and ritual contexts for the work''s genesis, the first detailed musical analysis of the Requiem.