Monteverdi: Vespers (1610), by John Whenham

Monteverdi: Vespers (1610), by John Whenham
Cambridge University Press | 152 pages | English | 1997 | ISBN: 0521453771 | PDF | 3,2 MB

Monteverdi's Vespers is an exceptional collection of sacred music, both in the inventiveness of the compositions that it contains and in the debate that it has provoked over its use in the seventeenth century and over Monteverdi's intentions in publishing it. This handbook provides all the information that the reader needs for an in-depth appreciation of the musical settings themselves, of the debate that surrounds the original intention of the volume and of the problems of performing the music today. The book includes the texts and plainsongs used by Monteverdi, and a discography.


Contents
Acknowledgements page vii
List of abbreviations viii
1 Introduction 1
2 The 1610 settings and the liturgy of Vespers 6
Vespers: liturgy, plainsong, falsobordone 6
Problems posed by the 1610 Vespers 15
3 The 1610 print and Monteverdi's career 23
The 1610 publication 23
Monteverdi and church music at Mantua 29
Three theories 30
Motives for publication 35
4 'Suited to the chapels or chambers of princes' 41
'Duo Seraphim' 43
'Nigra sum' and Tulchra es' 47
4Audi coelum' 54
'Sonata sopra Sancta Maria' 56
5 'And all on a cantus firmus* 60
Response 'Domine ad adiuvandum' 61
'Dixit Dominus' 62
'Laudate pueri* 64
'Laetatus sum' 67
'Nisi Dominus' 72
'Lauda Ierusalem' 74
'Ave maris Stella' 76
The Magnificat settings 77
6 Issues of performance 82
Performance with period instruments 85
Performance with solo voices 87
Instrumental accompaniment 89
Transposition 90
Tempo and proportions 91
Liturgical and concert performance 92
Appendices
1 Second Vespers for the Feast of the Assumption of
the Blessed Virgin (15 August) 95
2 Plainsongs, texts and translations 100
Notes 121
Select bibliography 130
Discography 134
Index 137

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