Adrian Willaert

A Guide to Research

David Kidger

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2005
• ISBN:
  9781135575762
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music

This key text will be the first full-length research tool on Adrian Willaert, the Renaissance composer of motets and madrigals who came to prominence in the first part of the sixteenth century, and should prove invaluable to researchers and students.

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Works List (A–J)

This list comprises a working catalog of all works ascribed to Willaert, in whole or in part. The catalog has been subdivided as follows:

1. Masses and Individual Mass Movements
2. Motets
3. Psalms
4. Hymns
5. Other Liturgical Music
6. Chansons and Tenorlieder
7. Madrigals
8. Other Vocal Music with Italian Text
9. Instrumental
10. Arrangements of Other Composers’ Music by Willaert

Within each category there is a further subdivision according to number of voices.

Works categorized as “Doubtful or Misattributed” are listed at the end of each cat- egory. To distinguish them from authentic works, they are assigned lower-case letters.

Print sources refer to those listed in Chapters 2 and 3. Manuscript sources refer to those listed in Chapter 4. Only sixteenth-century manuscript sources are included here. Chapter 7 provides a separate inventory of manuscript sources after 1600. Editions refer to modern editions published after 1800. These are listed in Chapter 8, with bibliographic citations and commentary where necessary.

Notes provide annotations for works, identifying compositional devices such as cantus firmus and canon, identifying the source of a text, and identifying the function of a sacred work where possible. The identification of liturgical function here should be taken as being only preliminary.

The methodology employed for handling special categories of works is described below:

Works with Conflicting At...