Rossi and Weelkes: Examining a Knot in the Italian-English Contrapuntal Network

Abstract

Judith Cohen found, in Thomas Weelkes’s madrigals, motivic allusions to Salamone Rossi’s Canzonets. Further analysis of these two corpora shows, however, that the allusions are, rather than on the motivic surface, deeper, relating to subtle adaptations and modifications of contrapuntal techniques that Weelkes, inspired and influenced by both Rossi and English traditions, applied to his work.