Gregorio Ballabene’s Forty-eight-part Mass for Twelve Choirs (1772) (Hardcover)

Introduction 1.　Twelve-choir performances 2.　The presence of a glorious past 3.　Burney’s ‘Mass’ 4.　Ballabene and his Mass in Martini’s correspondence 5.　The ‘rehearsal’ and its outcome 6.　Consequences for Ballabene’s professional advancement 7.　Martini’s approbation 8.　Important Compositional Features 9.　Pitoni’s Mass 10.　Ballabene and the twilight of an era 11.　Fame and posthumous fame 12.　The history of the score 13.　Unfortunate anachronism or accomplishment of the Roman Baroque? Appendix　I: Documents (in chronological order) Appendix　II: Documented copies of Ballabene’s Mass Bibliography