The Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 Music, Context, Performance

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ISBN: 9780198164098 | 0198164092
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 3/16/2000

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This is the only extensive study of the Monteverdi Vespers, vastly expanding on the author's 1978 set of essays on the subject, long since out-of-print. The volume studies the Vespers from the perspectives of its musical and liturgical origins and context, presents analytical essays on the music, and examines seventeenth-century performance practice as it pertains to the Vespers. Appendices include bibliographies and an analytical discography.

List of Music Examples

xvii

Introduction

I. CONTEXT

Sources, Controversies, and Speculations: The Early and Modern History of Monteverdi's Vespers

(45)

The Liturgy of Vespers and the `Antiphon Problem'

(23)

A Brief History of Vespers in the Sixteenth Century

(20)

Vesper Publications and Modern Style, 1600--1620: A Comparison of Monteverdi's Vespers with the Contemporaneous Repertoire

(86)

II. THE MUSIC

A Preliminary Note on Analytical Method and Terminology

185

(17)

Compositions Based on a Cantus Firmus: The Response and Psalms

202

(54)

Compositions Based on a Cantus Firmus: The Magnificats

256

(37)

Compositions Based on a Cantus Firmus: The Hymn and the Sonata sopra Sancta Maria

293

(15)

Compositions not Based on a Cantus Firmus: Nigra sum

308

(17)

Compositions not Based on a Cantus Firmus: Pulchra es, Duo Seraphim, Audi coelum

325

(22)

III. PERFORMANCE PRACTICE

A Philosophical Note on Historical Performance Practice

347

(7)

Continuo Instruments

354

(4)

Organs and Organ Registration

358

(9)

Continuo Realization

367

(9)

Voices and Choirs

376

(10)

Vocal Style

386

(18)

Pitch and Transposition

404

(8)

Obbligato Instruments

412

(11)

Instrumental Doubling and Substitution for Vocal Parts

423

(10)

Metre and Tempo

433

(34)

Vocal and Instrumental Ornamentation

467

(21)

Tuning and Temperament

488

(7)

Historical Pronunciation

495

(5)

Appendix A. Psalm Cursus and their Feasts

500

(3)

Appendix B. Rubrics Regarding Vespers and Marian Antiphons

503

(1)

Appendix C. Texts and Structural Outlines of Compositions Based on a Cantus Firmus

504

(11)

Appendix D. Discography

515

(10)

Appendix E. Sixteenth-and Seventeenth-Century Musical Sources

525

(17)

Appendix F. Theoretical Treatises of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

542

(5)

Bibliography

547

(26)

Index of Text Incipits and Composition Titles

573

(4)

Index of Names

577

(15)

General Index

592

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The Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 Music, Context, Performance

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