PHILIPPE ROGIER (c.1561-1596): MISSA INCLITA STIRPS JESSE. A CRITICAL AND PERFORMING EDITION WITH PERFORMANCE COMMENTARY

The dissertation comprises two parts: (a) a musical edition and (b) a performance given on 3 July, 2008 of Philippe Rogier’s Missa Inclita stirps Jesse. The dissertation explores some of the editorial decisions required, how the demands of performers and musicologists differ, and whether they can be reconciled in one single edition. The commentary explains the preparation and realization of the edition. A video recording of the concert performance is attached to the dissertation. The Mass: The Missa Inclita stirps Jesse was published in Madrid in 1598 in a collection entitled Missae Sex. The mass setting is for four voices, except the Agnus Dei, which is for five, and is based on musical material in the motet Inclita stirps Jesse by Jacobus Clemens non Papa (c. 1510-15 – c.1556-6). Rogier’s choice and use of musical material from the motet (published in 1549) are discussed in the dissertation. The Edition: The edition is made from a microfilm copy of the Missae Sex held in the Biblioteca del Conservatorio de Musica “Giuseppe Verdi” in Milan. The Missae Sex was originally dedicated to King Philip II of Spain (1527-1598, reg. 1556-1598), whom Rogier had served as chorister and then maestro de capilla. Both Rogier and King Philip died before the volume was ready for publication. One of Rogier’s pupils, Géry de Ghersem, prepared the volume, which was printed in 1598, dedicated to King Philip III. The Performance: The mass was performed at a concert of Spanish Renaissance music in St. Matthew’s Cathedral, Washington, DC, on 3 July 2008, sung by the ensemble Orpheus directed by Philip Cave as part of the Chorworks summer workshop entitled Kings and Conquistadors: Music of Old and New Spain.

A national security strategy for England: Matthew Sutcliffe, the Earl of Essex, and the Cadiz Expedition of 1596

The English cleric Matthew Sutcliffe arguably produced the first comprehensive security concept in history. It had at its centre the war between England and Spain (1585-1604), and Sutcliffe advocated taking the war to the Iberian Peninsula to seize Philip II's main Atlantic ports, rather than remaining satisfied with the indirect combat of Spain in Flanders, defensive action against naval attacks on England and the guerre de course on Spanish shipping at sea. This approach seems to be at the heart of Essex's 1596 naval campaing against Spanish ports, which foundered on the bureaucratic politics of the Elizabethan government.

Haduan, sampt derselben Revier : wie solche von der Königliche Würdin, Ertzhertzog Maximiliano, [et]c. auff den 16. Augusti belägert, beschossen, vnd endtlich mit stürmender Hand, den 3. Septembris, in disem 1596. Jar, erobert worden

... Alexander Mair Augustanus sculptor se humiliter commendat

Abries Der Hochen Voestung Clissa, Dem Türcken Eingenom̄en : Geschehen den 7. Aprilis An̄o 1596

Text (in Versform) in d. Platte graviert

Die Türggen belägern Lippam : Anno 1596, auff den 9. tag May, nochmals auff den 12. May, da sie Geschlagen, vnd daruor abgetryben worden

Alexander Mair Aug. Vind.

Roll of alumni in arts of the University and King's College of Aberdeen, 1596-1860.

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Brevis & admiranda descriptio regni Guianae, auri abundantissimi, in America, seu novo orbe, sub linea aequinoctilia siti : ,quod nuper admodum, annis nimirum 1564 [sic], 1595 & 1596 /

Sabin,

Histoire universelle de Jaques-Auguste de Thou : avec la suite par Nicolas Rigault ... : Tome huitieme. 1591-1596.

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Mercurii Gallobelgici siue Rerum in Gallia & Belgio potissimum ; Ungaria quoque, Transyluania, Turcia, Polonia Germania, Italia, Hispania, Anglia, alijsque Europae regnis & prouincijs ab anni 1594 mense iulio usque ad annum 1596 gestarum ... ; tomus tertius ... cum appendice ab initio anni 1596 ... /

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Historia del saqueo de Cádiz por los ingleses en 1596 /

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Greene's groats-worth of wit: bought with a million of repentaunce. Reprinted from an original of the extremely rare edition of 1596, preserved in the library of Henry Huth, Esq.

Includes reproduction of t.p., London, 1596.

Biographische skizze des freiherrn Hans Philipp v. Hohenax, besitzer der Manessischen sammlung. Geboren 1550 den 12. april - ermordet den 4. mai 1596.

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