The church music of Grammatio Metallo, 1602-1613

Thesis

Grammatio Metallo (1540-1614/15) was maestro di cappella at the Venetian parish church of San Marcuola between 1602 and 1610. His vast output of sacred choral music includes eleven Masses, nineteen Magnificats and over a hundred motets, mainly written in a retrospective loosely polyphonic style. A selection of works also shows his excursions into concertante and cori spezzati mediums. Despite the frequency with which his works were published his contemporary fame as a...

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Authors: Collyer, J

• Type of award: MLitt
• Level of award: Masters
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: Grammatio Metallo; Italy; sixteenth century; church music; 16th century
• Subjects: Metallo, Grammatio, 1540-; Church music -- Italy -- 16th century