The Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 : Music, Context, Performance: Music, Context, Performance

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Clarendon Press, 6 sty 2000 - 624
This is a thorough-going study of Monteverdi's Vespers, the single most significant and most widely known musical print from before the time of J.S. Bach. The author examines Monteverdi's Vespers from multiple perspectives, combining his own research with all that is known and thought of the Vespers by other scholars. The historical origin as well as the musical and liturgical context of the Vespers are surveyed; similarly the controversial historiography of the Vespers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is scrutinized and evaluated. A series of analytical chapters attempt to clarify Monteverdi's compositional process and the relationship between music and text in the light of recent research on modal and tonal aspects of early seventeenth century music. The final section is devoted to thirteen chapters investigating performance practice issues of the early seventeenth century and their application to the Vespers, including general and specific recommendations for performance where appropriate. The book concludes with a series of informational appendices, including the psalm cursus for Vespers of all major feasts in the liturgical calendar, texts, and structural outlines for the Vespers compositions based on a cantus firmus, an analytical discography, and bibliographies of seventeenth-century musical and theoretical sources.

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The Early and Modern
11
The Liturgy of Vespers and the Antiphon Problem
56
A Brief History of Vespers in the Sixteenth Century
79
A Comparison
99
THE MUSIC
110
A Preliminary Note on Analytical Method and Terminology
185
The Response
202
The Magnificats
256
Vocal Style
386
Pitch and Transposition
404
Obbligato Instruments
412
Instrumental Doubling and Substitution for Vocal Parts
423
Metre and Tempo
433
Vocal and Instrumental Ornamentation
467
Tuning and Temperament
488
Historical Pronunciation
495

The Hymn and
293
Nigra sum
308
Pulchra
325
A Philosophical Note on Historical Performance Practice
347
Continuo Instruments
354
Continuo Realization
367
Voices and Choirs
376
Appendix B Rubrics Regarding Vespers and Marian Antiphons
503
Discography
515
Appendix E Sixteenth and SeventeenthCentury Musical Sources
525
Appendix F Theoretical Treatises of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth
542
Index of Text Incipits and Composition Titles
573
General Index
592
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Strona 511 - Magnificat anima mea Dominum; Et exultavit spiritus meus in Deo salutari meo. Quia respexit humilitatem ancillae suae; ecce enim ex hoc beatam me dicent omnes generationes Quia fecit mihi magna qui potens est, et sanctum nomen ejus.
Strona 320 - I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away ; and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
Strona 507 - I was glad when they said to me, "Let us go to the house of the LORD!
Strona 507 - LORD, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD. 5 For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David. 6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem : they shall prosper that love thee. 7 Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. 8 For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.
Strona 332 - Quoniam tres sunt, qui testimonium dant in coelo : Pater, Verbum, et Spiritus sanctus; et hi tres n,mm sunt.
Strona 332 - For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one.

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