De Musica Disserenda (Jun 2015)

Gallus – der Humanist amat Venerem, cur?

  • Ivan Florjanc

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3986/dmd03.2.06
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 2
pp. 69 – 89

Abstract

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The Slovenian Renaissance composer Jacobus Handl, Gallus dictus, Carniol(an)us was a refined humanist with an exquisite command of Latin. A mythological and theological semantic conception of Gallus, research into the composer’s strong self-identification with a cock (the rooster being an ares among animals), the madrigal Gallus amat Venerem, cur? etc. clarify and demonstrate the way in which the composer as a humanist, artist and human being found his identification precisely in his name Gallus. As artist and humanist he is therefore Jacobus Gallus.

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