abstract: This paper provides a comprehensive study of Italian liturgical organ works from the 15th to 17th centuries. This music was composed for the Catholic Mass, and it demonstrates the development of Italian keyboard style and the incorporation of new genres into the organ Mass, such as a Toccata before the Mass, music for the Offertory, and the Elevation Toccata. This often neglected corpus of music deserves greater scholarly attention. The Italian organ Mass begins with the Faenza Codex of c.1430, which contains the earliest surviving liturgical music for organ. Over a century would pass before Girolamo Cavazzoni published his three organ Masses in 1543: Mass IV (for feasts of apostles), Mass IX (for Marian feasts) and Mass XI (for typical Sundays of the year). The prevalence of publishing in Venice and the flourishing liturgical culture at San Marco led two notable organists, Andrea Gabrieli and Claudio Merulo, to publish their own Masses in 1563 and 1568. Both composers cultivated imitation and figurative lines which were often replete with ornamentation. Frescobaldi’s Fiori musicali, published in Venice in 1635, represents the pinnacle of the Italian organ Mass. Reflecting the type of music he performed liturgically at San Pietro in Rome, this publication includes several new genres: canzonas after the reading of the Epistle and after Communion; ricercars after the Credo; and toccatas to be played during the Elevation of the Host. Frescobaldi’s music shows unparalleled mastery of counterpoint and invention of figuration. His liturgical music casts a long shadow over the three composers who published organ Masses in the decade following Fiori musicali: Giovanni Salvatore, Fra Antonio Croci and Giovanni Battista Fasolo. This comprehensive look at Italian organ Masses from the 15th-17th centuries reveals the musical creativity inspired by the Catholic liturgy. Perhaps because of their practical use, these organ works are often neglected, mentioned merely as addenda to the other accomplishments of these composers. Hopefully insight into the contents of each organ Mass, along with the information about their style and aspects of performance practice, will make these musical gems more accessible to contemporary organists. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Music 2015

Publikasjonen skildrer et kunstnerisk prosjekt som tar utgangspunkt i verkene "Se i languidi miei sguardi" av Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), "Vanne, o carta amorosa" av Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643) og "Scrivete, occhi dolenti" (1605-1674) av Giacomo Carissimi. Samtlige verk er for solo stemme og basso continuo.  Prosjektet problematiserer og undersøker mulighetene denne musikken har til å kommunisere så direkte som mulig med et moderne, ikke italiensk-språklig publikum. Den praktiske delen av undersøkelsen utgjøres av en workshop i historisk gestikk med en ekspert på emnet, Deda Cristina Colonna.  En sentral del av diskusjonen spinner rundt sangerens bevissthet rundt scenisk framtreden og nonverbalt uttrykk, og synet på disse aspektene ved scenisk vokalkunst i den tidlige barokkens Italia.

The present study is an attempt to enlarge upon the proposition that the age of Frescobaldi was, like all others, an age of transition, in his case the transition from Renaissance to Baroque. His position within this change is central, both in time and importance. In our first two chapters, the various categories of keyboard works which he enriched will be considered, with their prehistories, his contributions, and analyses of individual pieces. In chapter I the works mainly of instrumental origin will be dealt with, and in chapter ll those of more vocal derivation. In the final chapter, the information thus gleaned will be used to demonstrate his exact position within the transition, particularly with regard to its two most important aspects, the harmonic field and the interaction of vocal and instrumental elements.

It is the purpose of this thesis to discuss and compare the canzoni of Frescobaldi and Froberger and to show something of their influences on their successors.

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Girolamo Frescobaldi levde i brytningstiden mellan renässansen och barocken. Han var en av de betydelsefulla tonsättarna som med sin musik förde in musiken i nästa epok, den tidiga barocken. Han tog intryck av tidens uttrycksfulla vokala musik, och förde in det vokala uttrycket i sin instrumentalmusik, affetto vocale. Detta vokala uttryck var något för den tiden helt nytt, varför Frescobaldi skrev ett förord till den samling med Toccator och Partitor han gav ut först 1615 vari han gav detaljerad information om hur han ville att hans musik skulle framföras. Detta förord gav nycklar till den tidens interpreter vad gäller framförandet, liksom det ger nycklar till oss idag. På en av dessa Toccator ur första bandet har jag gjort en fallstudie och applicerat de råd Frescobaldi gav på den. För mig har detta gett en djupare förståelse för den här tiden, och framför allt för Frescobaldis cembalomusik. Den har givit mig förståelse för vad som var nytt och i förlängningen givit mig verktyg för att göra en tydligare interpretation

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