Monteverdi Vespers Of 1610 Music, Context, Performance

Name: Monteverdi Vespers Of 1610 Music, Context, Performance
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ISBN: 9780198164098

ISBN-10: 0198164092

ISBN-13: 9780198164098

Edition: 1997

Authors: Jeffrey Kurtzman

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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…

Book details

List price: $295.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/16/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 624
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.46" tall
Weight: 2.222
Language: English

Kurtzman is Professor of Music at Washington University in St. Louis.



List of Music Examples


Introduction



Context



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



The Liturgy of Vespers and the 'Antiphon Problem'



A Brief History of Vespers in the Sixteenth Century



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



The Music



A Preliminary Note on Analytical Method and Terminology



Compositions Based on a Cantus Firmus: The Response and Psalms



Compositions Based on a Cantus Firmus: The Magnificats



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



Compositions not Based on a Cantus Firmus: Nigra sum



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



Performance Practice



A Philosophical Note on Historical Performance Practice



Continuo Instruments



Organs and Organ Registration



Continuo Realization



Voices and Choirs



Vocal Style



Pitch and Transposition



Obbligato Instruments



Instrumental Doubling and Substitution for Vocal Parts



Metre and Tempo



Vocal and Instrumental Ornamentation



Tuning and Temperament



Historical Pronunciation



Psalm Cursus and their Feasts



Rubrics Regarding Vespers and Marian Antiphons



Texts and Structural Outlines of Compositions Based on a Cantus Firmus



Discography



Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Musical Sources



Theoretical Treatises of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries


Bibliography


Index of Text Incipits and Composition Titles


Index of Names


General Index