From its introduction in Venice in the early sixteenth century, polychoral music underwent an extraordinary journey in the course of which it spread throughout Europe, from Lisbon to Warsaw and, crossing the Atlantic, came to be practiced with equal intensity in Latin America. By adopting a broad perspective, the present volume aims to bring together for the first time contributions not only about the origins of the phenomenon itself, but also in relation to its widespread transcultural diffusion in Spain and America.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Presentazione / Presentation
by Davide Croff, presidente della Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi

Introduction
by Juan José Carreras and Iain Fenlon

Iain Fenlon
Polychorality: The Origins and Early Diffusion of an International Genre

Noel O’Regan
From Rome to Madrid: the polychoral music of Tomás Luis de Victoria

Francesco Luisi
Policoralità a Roma. Alcuni casi emblematici

Juan José Carreras
La policoralidad como identidad del “Barroco musical español”

Alfonso de Vicente
Los comienzos de la música policoral en el área de la Corona de Castilla. Algunas hipótesis y muchas preguntas

Pablo L. Rodríguez
Il ‘lleno de música’ e la ‘grandeza de Vuestra Majestad’:
Potere, cerimonia e policoralità nella Cappella Reale spagnola nel XVII secolo

Luis Robledo Estaire
Hacer choro con los ángeles. El concepto de policoralidad en la teoría musical española de Cerone a Nassarre

Andrea Bombi
Villancicos policorali nella Corona aragonese

Geoffrey Baker
Polychorality, ethnicity and status in colonial Cuzco, Perú

Ricardo Miranda
Éxtasis de luz y fe: la policoralidad en la Nueva España a través de la obra de Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla

Bibliography
The Authors
Index of names

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