Vespers (1610)

ISBN-13: 9780193375888 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 274 str.

Opis

This edition is designed to meet the needs of both the scholar and the performer. It contains the complete music of all fourteen compositions as in Monteverdi's original print, plus the psalm 'Lauda Jerusalem' and the two Magnificats in a choice of pitches. Also provided are a continuo realization, notes on performance, Gregorian antiphons for the feasts of the Virgin, and examples of typical early seventeenth-century embellishments.
Complete performing material is available on hire, and a Critical Commentary is available for sale from the hire library.

Recenzje

The new edition has useful examples of early 16th-century vocal ornamentation, suggestions on period and modern instrumental requirements, and a welcome and articulate commentary on the business of continuo realisation.

O autorze

Jeffrey Kurtzman earned a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. His research is centered on Italian music of the 16th and 17th centuries, aesthetics, and criticism.