E-raamat: Book of Requiems, 1550-1650: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Period

'The Book of Requiems' will become a primary reference tool on this fascinating genre and serve as a crucial aid to researchers, performers, and students of various disciplines. The editors of the second volume in the series have made a highly insightful decision to group together works from ca. 1550 to ca. 1650; this cuts across stylistic changes and reveals the most intense period of creation of Requiem settings and many shared compositional approaches across the traditional style periods. Organizing the volume in this way also allows important focus on many changes brought by Trent since some works exist in both pre-Tridentine versions reflecting local liturgical use and those based on the Reformed liturgy. Although significant in various regions of Europe, the Requiem as a genre witnessed what could be considered its most important flowering during this era in the Iberian sphere as is demonstrated by the works selected by the editors to be featured. I congratulate them on their wonderful achievement. - Grayson Wagstaff, The Catholic University of America In ieder geval is dit een reeks om in de gaten te houden (...) de sterke punten doen mij uitzien naar de volgende delen. - Emanuel Overbeeke, OpusKlassiek, oktober 2023, www.opusklassiek.nl/boeken/burn_requiems2.htm The contributions included in The Book of Requiems (1550-1650) of­fer several notable advantages: they provide a comprehensive overview of Requiem production during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries through clear and de­tailed analyses. These contributions engage fully with the results of recent musico­logical research and present intriguing critical readings (or re-readings) of both well­known and lesser-known works. The analytical approach chat guides the entire series remains highly productive in the study of Requiem history. It allows for an examina­tion of the distinctive features of the Masses, considering their evolution over time and across regions, while also identifying commonalities, connections, borrowings and their absences. - Simone Caputo, Muzyka 2024/4