TOUROUT: Miscellanea

TRT 5

(2023) XLII + 83 pp.

 

With the publication of the fifth and final volume, the KVNM honours

the renowned Renaissance connoisseur, musicologist Jaap van

Benthem, who died in January this year. It also presents the oeuvre

of this remarkable 15th-century composer in a well-organised way

and provides scholarly commentary.

In combination with an elaborate evaluation of more than a century

of interest in the composer’s oeuvre, the present edition aims at a

more user-friendly approach to his characteristic style. Taking into

account various problems in dealing with the transmission of his

oeuvre, as well as the general presumption that compositions by

him may have been transmitted without an ascription, the edition

will include ascribed compositions alongside anonymous settings,

attributable to him. In this respect the five-volume edition may

function as a ‘Baedeker’ for the composer’s musical world.