Girolamo Bartei’s Missa Defunctorum (1608): A critical edition and contextual essay

This research project focusses on Girolamo Bartei’s Missa Pro Defunctis (1608), a significant but largely forgotten eight-part polychoral setting of the Requiem Mass. I present a modern critical edition of the work alongside a contextual essay exploring Bartei’s life, his musical output, and performance practice issues pertaining to early seventeenth-century Roman polychoral music. The…