References

  • Francesco Caffi: Storia della musica sacra nella già cappella ducale di S. Marco dal 1318 al 1797, Venice 1854-1855; reprinted (Olschki: Firenze, 1987).
  • Denis Arnold, Giovanni Croce and the Concertato Style. Musical Quarterly, 1953; XXXIX: 37-48 .
  • Gustave Reese, Music in the Renaissance. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1954. ISBN: 0-393-09530-4
  • Theophil Antonicek, “Italienische Musikerlebnisse Ferdinands II. 1598,” Anzeiger der phil.-hist. Klasse der Österreichischen Akademie, No. 4 (Mitteilungen der Kommission für Musikforschung, No. 18) (1967).
  • Lilian Putz, “Die Tonsymbolik im Madrigalwerk Giovanni Croces,” Grazer Musikwissenschaftliche Arbeiten, 2 (Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt: Graz, 1976)
  • Denis Arnold, Giovanni Gabrieli and the Music of the Venetian High Renaissance. London, Oxford University Press, 1979. ISBN: 0-19-315232-0
  • Article "Giovanni Croce" in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980. ISBN: 1-56159-174-2
  • S. P. Engebretson, A Performance Edition of Motetti a otto voci … Libro II, 1595 [recte 1604] by Giovanni Croce, DMA dissertation (Stanford University, 1980)
  • Jonathan Glixon: 'Music at the scuole in the age of Andrea Gabrieli' in: Andrea Gabrieli e il suo tempo: Atti del convegno internazionale, Venezia, 16-18 settembre 1985 (Olschki: Firenze, 1987), pp. 59-74
  • The New Harvard Dictionary of Music, ed. Don Randel. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1986. ISBN: 0-674-61525-5
  • DonnaMae J. Gustafson, Giovanni Croce’s Mascarate piacevoli et ridicolose per il carnevale: A Contextual Study and Critical Edition, Ph.D. dissertation (University of Minnesota, 1992). http://www.ifagiolini.com/croce.htm
  • John Bettley, “The Office of Holy Week at St. Mark’s, Venice, in the late 16th Century, and the Musical Contributions of Giovanni Croce,” Early Music 22 (1994), pp. 45-60. A valuable analysis of Croce’s two sets of Lamentations, which however virtually ignores the series of (incomplete) Tenebrae Responsories in his Motetti a quattro voci of 1597.
  • Laura Davey, The Life of Giovanni Croce: A Documentary Study, Ph.D. thesis (University of Oxford, 1998), 2 vol.
  • Dr Davey's dissertation provided, together with his own original researches, the basis for Martin Morell's new biographical study which appears in Volume I.
  • Elena Quaranta: Oltre San Marco: Organizzazione e prassi della musica nelle chiese di Venezia nel Rinascimento (Studi di musica veneta, 26) (Olschki: Firenze, 1998)
  • Jonathan Glixon: Honoring God and the City: Music at the Venetian Confraternities, 1250-1806 (Oxford University Press: New York, 2003)
  • Enrico Peluso, Il primo libro di motetti a otto voci di Giovanni Croce (1594) (corso di laurea, Facoltà di lettere e filosofia, Università degli Studi di Bologna, 2006)

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