Title: Heinrich Isaac and polyphony for the proper of the mass in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance
Description: The important contribution of Heinrich Isaac (ca. 1455-1517) to polyphonic settings of the proper of the mass has long been recognised. The monumental posthumously published collection of his work in the genre, the Choralis Constantinus, was considered as a landmark even in the sixteenth century. Isaac's striking cultivation of polyphonic mass proper settings has its roots in his task, as Hofcomponist to Emperor Maximilian I, of building a musical repertoire for the Imperial court chapel. The repertoire he created awakened a demand for analogous music at other European courts and institutions and led, in 1508, to the commissioning of an extraordinary series of proper cycles from him by the authorities of Constance Cathedral.
Subjects: Counterpoint, Vertonung, Messe, Quelle, Europa, Proprium, History and criticism, Propers (Music), Choralis Constantinus (Isaac, Heinrich), Polyfonie, Church music, Catholic Church, History
People: Heinrich Isaac (approximately 1450-1517), Heinrich Isaac (1450-1517), Heinrich Isaac
Time periods: 16th century