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Orlando Di Lasso's Prize-Winning Motet Of 1583, Elizabeth Teviotdale
Orlando Di Lasso's Prize-Winning Motet Of 1583, Elizabeth Teviotdale
Elizabeth C Teviotdale
Reviews some of the documentation concerning the Puy de Musique of the Confraternity of Saint Cecilia of the Norman town of Évreux and considers the circumstances of the composition and the musical fabric of Cantantibus Organis, a five-voice motet that was awarded the Puy's "silver organ" in 1583, by Orlando di Lasso, concluding that Lasso probably thought to submit the piece, which had been composed in 1579 or earlier, to the competition as he remembered the prize he won in 1575 as he worked on the publication of three volumes of his motets by his Munich printer, Adam Berg, in …
The Filiation Of The Music Illustrations In A Boethius In Milan And In The Piacenza Codice Magno, Elizabeth Teviotdale
The Filiation Of The Music Illustrations In A Boethius In Milan And In The Piacenza Codice Magno, Elizabeth Teviotdale
Elizabeth C Teviotdale
Proposes a common prototype from the tradition of illustrated manuscripts of Cassiodorus’s Institutiones as the explanation for the close iconographic relationship between music illustrations in a manuscript (here dated to the 11th century) of the De arithmetica and De musica of Boethius (Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, MS C.128 inf.) and in the 12th-century Codice Magno (Piacenza, Biblioteca Capitolare, MS 65). Suggests that the iconography may have originated in a Carolingian scriptorium.