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Zoë Kendrick Pyne.
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: His Life and Times.
Published London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1922.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: William Clowes & Sons, London & Beccles.
Size: 134×196×29mm.
Page count: text xxv,232pp; plates 4pp.
Main language: English; quotations given without translation.
Overall condition fair: this copy has no dustjacket; boards and spine rather faded, some rubs on the edges and corners; some foxing internally; previous owner’s bookplates fixed inside the front boards, but the main text appears to be free of marking; several folios uncut, so possibly an unread copy.

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Weight without packaging: 384g.

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Contents: Intro. — general survey; I. Early life, education, marriage; II. Julian choir, 1st madrigal, 1st book of masses; III. Pontifical choir, choirmaster of S. Giovanni Laterano; IV. Motets, 2nd book of masses; V. 3rd book of masses, D’Este as patron, Book of motets, relations with Duke of Mantua; VI. Directs for S. Filippo Neri, Returns to Julian choir, Madrigali Spirituali; VII. Pupils & disciples; VIII. 2nd book of motets, Death of D’Este, honour from town of Palestrina, death of son & wife, remarriage; IX. Madrigali Spirituali, 2nd book of motets, 4th book of masses; X. ‘Company of Rome’, Motets on Song of Solomon, Motets for 65 voices, composer to Pontifical Choir; XI. Death of Duke of Mantua, alleged poverty, 1st book of Lamentations, Hymns, 5th book of masses, Offertories, Litanies, 6th book of masses, last illness & death; XII. Grave unknown, 7th book of masses, unpublished works, collected edition; XIII. End of Roman school, attempts to rekindle interest in 19th c.; XIV. Controversy as to year of birth, concluding remarks.
Appendices: Index to masses; 16th-century art.

Illustrations: 4 monochrome plates
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

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