Monteverdi: Vespers (1610)
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- Author: John Whenham, University of Birmingham
- Date Published: September 1997
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521459792
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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 a guide to the music in all its aspects – from an introduction to the service of Vespers itself, through the practice of chanting psalms in plainsong to analysis of Monteverdi's settings, ranging from the rhetoric of the motet 'Nigra sum' to the sub-text of the psalm 'Laetatus sum'. It also examines the issues involved in performing the Vespers and evaluates various scholarly debates on the music, challenging the long-held ideas that the sacred concertos are antiphon substitutes and that the music could not have been performed at Santa Barbara, Mantua. The book includes the texts and plainsongs used by Monteverdi, and a discography.
Read more- Contains all the material needed for an in-depth study of the 1610 Vespers
- One of the few sources in which the texts set by Monteverdi are correctly laid out
- Provides a guide to the issues involved in re-creating a performance of the Vespers, 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
See more reviews'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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- Date Published: September 1997
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521459792
- length: 152 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 138 x 9 mm
- weight: 0.28kg
- contains: 6 tables 22 music examples
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. The 1610 settings and the liturgy of Vespers
3. The 1610 print and Monteverdi's career
4. 'Suited to the chapels or chambers of princes'
5. 'And all on a cantus firmus'
6. Issues of performance
Appendices
Notes
Select bibliography
Discography
Index.
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