Traces of Tollius
Traces of Tollius: The Life and Work of the Amersfoort Musician Joannes Tollius (c. 1550-c. 1620)
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Preface
Introduction
Part I Tollius’s life
1 Amersfoort (c. 1550-c. 1580)
The Tol family
The family house on Langestraat
Music lessons at the Latin school
The Iconoclasm
The Chapel of Our Lady
Amersfoort and the Dutch Revolt
The Tol family in the last decades of the sixteenth century
To Italy
2 Italy (c. 1580-c. 1600)
Rieti (1583-1584)
Assisi (1584-1586)
Rome (1586-1588)
Padua (1588-1601)
3 Copenhagen (c. 1600-c. 1620)
At the court of Christian iv (1601-1603)
Amersfoort or Copenhagen (1603-c. 1620)
‘Homo famae sinisterioris’
Part II Tollius’s works
4 Publications and dedications
Publishers and printers
Angelo Gardano
Motecta de dignitate et moribus Sacerdotum
Liber primus motectorum quinque vocum
Motectorum quinque vocum liber secundus
Jérôme Commelin and Jean II de Tournes
Moduli trium vocum
Madrigali a sei voci
Ricciardo Amadino
Laudi d’Amore
Madrigali de diversi a quattro voci
A manuscript in the Lüneburg Ratsbücherei
5 The surviving sources of Tollius’s music
The three-part motets of 1590
The two editions with five-part motets of 1591
The triptych of 1597
Copies still in existence
The convolutes
Indication of untraced copies
The two anthologies of 1598
The manuscript in the Ratsbücherei in Lüneburg
External characteristics of the manuscript
Book distribution
Book ownership
Collegia musica
6 The texts
Motecta de dignitate et moribus Sacerdotum (I)
Liber primus motectorum quinque vocum (II)
Motectorum quinque vocum liber secundus (III)
Moduli trium vocum (IV)
Cantilena Belgica
Madrigali a sei voci (V)
Laudi d’Amore (VI)
Madrigali de diversi a quattro voci (VII)
7 The music
Clef combinations
Mensuration signs
The madrigals (1597/1598)
Madrigalisms
Tollius and Monteverdi
The three-part motets (1590 and 1597)
Differences between the publications of 1590 and 1597
New compositions in the publication of 1597
The five-part motets (1591)
Text painting in the five-part motets
Parallel sixth chords
Syncopation
Chromaticism
The clef combinations
Personal characteristics
Summary and conclusion
appendices