A Choirbook for the Seven Sorrows: Royal Library of Belgium, Ms. 215-16: Study
- Type:
- boek
- Titel:
- A Choirbook for the Seven Sorrows: Royal Library of Belgium, Ms. 215-16: Study
- Andere titel:
- Een koorboek voor de zeven smarten Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België, Ms. 215-16
- Jaar:
- 2018
- Onderwerp:
- 16th Century (1501-1600)
Music history
Choir
Book
Mass - Taal:
- Onbepaald
- Uitgever:
- Leuven Alamire Foundation Antwerpen Davidsfonds Uitgeverij 2018
- Plaatsnummer:
- ORPH.TOP BE.BRU1 4 (Orpheus Instituut)
- ISBN:
- 9789059089846
- Paginering:
- 102 pages
- Reeks:
- Leuven Library of Music in Facsimile 2
- Samenvatting:
- Brussels, Royal Library of Belgium Ms. 215-16 is a choirbook belonging to the Alamire corpus, a group of richly illuminated manuscripts preserving sixteenth-century sacred and secular music from the Low Countries. This manuscript is unique among the collection because all of its music celebrates a central theme: the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin.Devotion to the Virgin’s Sorrows was immensely popular in the early sixteenth century among all levels of society – from labourer to nobility. As an artifact of this widespread movement, this exceptional choirbook not only commemorates the devotion through both polyphony and plainchant but also reveals its importance for the Burgundian- Habsburg court.
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- https://cageweb.be/catalog/orp01:000022680
