Cima: Il secondo libro delli concerti (1627)

December 30, 2018
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Christine Getz
ISBN: 
978-1-9872-0014-0

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Andrea Cima was among the most celebrated organists active in Milan during the early seventeenth century. Cima’s Il secondo libro delli concerti of 1627 not only records the convergence of the composer’s skills as an improviser with his experience of collaborating with the city’s solo singers, but also stands as one of the only living documents of music heard at Santa Maria delle Grazie and Santa Maria della Rosa, two of Milan’s leading Dominican churches, during the early seventeenth century.

Cima’s Il secondo libro delli concerti (Milan: Lomazzo, 1627) contains twenty-three sacred concertos for two to four voices and organ; the organ part is notated in partitura. Although Il secondo libro delli concerti lacks a Magnificat, its featured texts suggest a volume intended primarily for use at vespers. The psalms, when taken together, do not form a single common cursus; they rather offer options for use on a variety of feasts. Also characteristic of the Lomazzo prints in particular and Milanese collections more generally is the dedication of selected concertos to individual singers who either had sung or were capable of singing them. Aside from the twenty-one concertos by Andrea Cima that comprise the bulk of the collection, Il secondo libro includes a concerto a 3 by Andrea’s brother Giovanni Paolo Cima (ca. 1570–1630) and a concerto a 4 by his nephew Giovanni Battista Cima (1596–1654).

Christine Suzanne Getz is the Associate Dean for Graduate Education in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a Professor of Musicology in the School of Music. She earned her Ph.D. in Musicology in 1991 from the University of North Texas and joined the UI faculty in 1999 after serving as a Lecturer and Assistant Professor at Baylor University. Professor Getz was the recipient of the Outstanding Teaching Award for a Tenure-Track Faculty Member at Baylor University in 1999, and was named a Dean’s Scholar in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Iowa in 2005. From 2009-2016 she served as the Associate Director for Graduate Studies in the UI School of Music, and from 2014-2016 she was an Administrative Fellow in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa.