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.
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'John Whenham approaches his task with an appropriately passionate sobriety, his impeccable scholarship presents all the evidence ... his speculations always command respect.' The Musical Times
'John Whenham gives an amazingly full, instructive and inspirational picture of The Vespers; this is something that can rarely be said of most manuals - this one, however, is the exception.' Canor
'John Whenham gives an amazingly full, instructive and inspirational picture of The Vespers; this is something that can rarely be said of most manuals - this one, however, is the exception.' Canor
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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 nowadays. The book includes the texts and plainsongs used by Monteverdi, and a discography.
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Monteverdi's 1610 publication contains music for Mass and Vespers, the two services of the Roman Catholic liturgy that were most frequently supplied with elaborate musical settings in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
plena est omnis, court choirmaster, cadence centres, splendoribus sanctorum, sacred concertos, psalm tone, modal unity, reciting note, repeated antiphon, liturgical reconstruction, instrumental doubling, amica mea, della beata vergine, gloria eius, triple metre, unum sunt, sicut erat, spiritui sancto, psalm settings, maris stella, obbligato instruments, secula seculorum, nuove musiche, ducal chapel, cantus firmus Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Santa Barbara, Dixit Dominus, Duo Seraphim, Blessed Virgin, Sancta Maria, Second Vespers, Lauda Ierusalem, Vincenzo Gonzaga, Verse Latin, Holy Ghost, Song of Songs, Dominus Deus Sabaoth, Jeffrey Kurtzman, Breviarium Romanum, Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, Roger Bowers, Andrew Parrott, Ann Matter, Cappella Sistina, Denis Stevens, Fondo Basilica, Pope Paul, Roman Seminary, Stephen Bonta, University of Pennsylvania Press New!
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Monteverdi's 1610 publication contains music for Mass and Vespers, the two services of the Roman Catholic liturgy that were most frequently supplied with elaborate musical settings in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
plena est omnis, court choirmaster, cadence centres, splendoribus sanctorum, sacred concertos, psalm tone, modal unity, reciting note, repeated antiphon, liturgical reconstruction, instrumental doubling, amica mea, della beata vergine, gloria eius, triple metre, unum sunt, sicut erat, spiritui sancto, psalm settings, maris stella, obbligato instruments, secula seculorum, nuove musiche, ducal chapel, cantus firmus Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Santa Barbara, Dixit Dominus, Duo Seraphim, Blessed Virgin, Sancta Maria, Second Vespers, Lauda Ierusalem, Vincenzo Gonzaga, Verse Latin, Holy Ghost, Song of Songs, Dominus Deus Sabaoth, Jeffrey Kurtzman, Breviarium Romanum, Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, Roger Bowers, Andrew Parrott, Ann Matter, Cappella Sistina, Denis Stevens, Fondo Basilica, Pope Paul, Roman Seminary, Stephen Bonta, University of Pennsylvania Press New!
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