The Monteverdi Vespers Of 1610 Music Context Performance

Author : Jeffrey Kurtzman
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780191590719

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The Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 : Music, Context, Performance by Jeffrey Kurtzman Pdf

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 research on modal and tonal aspects of early seventeenth century music. The final section is devoted to thirteen chapters investigating performance practice issues of the early seventeenth century and their application to the Vespers, including general and specific recommendations for performance where appropriate. The book concludes with a series of informational appendices, including the psalm cursus for Vespers of all major feasts in the liturgical calendar, texts, and structural outlines for the Vespers compositions based on a cantus firmus, an analytical discography, and bibliographies of seventeenth-century musical and theoretical sources.

Author : Jeffrey G. Kurtzman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Performance practice (Music)
ISBN : 1383008027

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The Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 by Jeffrey G. Kurtzman Pdf

Author : Martin Bernstein
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Music
ISBN : 0945193831

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A Musical Offering by Martin Bernstein Pdf

In the great tradition of the German Festschrift, this book brings together articles by Professor Bernstein's colleagues, friends and students to honor him on his 70th birthday. Ranging in subject from the trouv e song through esoteric aspects of Renaissance studies and authenticity in 18th-century musical sources to a lively and irreverent attack on performance practices today, the twenty essays by many of America's most distinguished scholars reflect the breadth and variety of Martin Bernstein's far-reaching interests and demonstrates the vitality and relevance of what is best in musicology today.

Author : John Whenham,Richard Wistreich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 1139828223

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The Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi by John Whenham,Richard Wistreich Pdf

Claudio Monteverdi is one of the most important figures of 'early' music, a composer whose music speaks powerfully and directly to modern audiences. This book, first published in 2007, provides an authoritative treatment of Monteverdi and his music, complementing Paolo Fabbri's standard biography of the composer. Written by leading specialists in the field, it is aimed at students, performers and music-lovers in general and adds significantly to our understanding of Monteverdi's music, his life, and the contexts in which he worked. Chapters offering overviews of his output of sacred, secular and dramatic music are complemented by 'intermedi', in which contributors examine individual works, or sections of works in detail. The book draws extensively on Monteverdi's letters and includes a select discography/videography and a complete list of Monteverdi's works together with an index of first lines and titles.

Author : John Whenham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1997-09-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521459796

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Monteverdi: Vespers (1610) by John Whenham Pdf

A guide to Monteverdi's Vespers, providing in-depth information on music settings and performance practice.

Author : Jonathan D. Green,David W. Oertel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 747 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781442244672

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Choral-Orchestral Repertoire by Jonathan D. Green,David W. Oertel Pdf

Choral-Orchestral Repertoire: A Conductor’s Guide, Omnibus Edition offers an expansive compilation of choral-orchestral works from 1600 to the present. Synthesizing Jonathan D. Green’s earlier six volumes on this repertoire, this edition updates and adds to the over 750 oratorios, cantatas, choral symphonies, masses, secular works for large and small ensembles, and numerous settings of liturgical and biblical texts for a wide variety of vocal and instrumental combinations. Each entry includes a brief biographical sketch of the composer, approximate duration, text sources, performing forces, available editions, and locations of manuscript materials, as well as descriptive commentary, a discography, and a bibliography. Unique to this edition are practitioner’s evaluations of the performance issues presented in each score. These include the range, tessitura, and nature of each solo role and a determination of the difficulty of the choral and orchestral portions of each composition. There is also a description of the specific challenges, staffing, and rehearsal expectations related to the performance of each work. Choral-Orchestral Repertoire is an essential resource for conductors and students of conducting as they search for repertoire appropriate to their needs and the abilities of their ensembles.

Author : Chester Lee Alwes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199361939

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A History of Western Choral Music by Chester Lee Alwes Pdf

Volume 1. From medieval foundations to the romantic age

Author : Kenneth Kreitner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351551472

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Renaissance Music by Kenneth Kreitner Pdf

We know what, say, a Josquin mass looks like but what did it sound like? This is a much more complex and difficult question than it may seem. Kenneth Kreitner has assembled twenty articles, published between 1946 and 2009, by scholars exploring the performance of music from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The collection includes works by David Fallows, Howard Mayer Brown, Christopher Page, Margaret Bent, and others covering the voices-and-instruments debate of the 1980s, the performance of sixteenth-century sacred and secular music, the role of instrumental ensembles, and problems of pitch standards and musica ficta. Together the papers form not just a comprehensive introduction to the issues of renaissance performance practice, but a compendium of clear thinking and elegant writing about a perpetually intriguing period of music history.

Author : Andrew H. Weaver
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317060284

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Sacred Music as Public Image for Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III by Andrew H. Weaver Pdf

Ferdinand III played a crucial role both in helping to end the Thirty Years' War and in re-establishing Habsburg sovereignty within his hereditary lands, and yet he remains one of the most neglected of all Habsburg emperors. The underlying premise of Sacred Music as Public Image for Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III is that Ferdinand's accomplishments came not through diplomacy or strong leadership but primarily through a skillful manipulation of the arts, through which he communicated important messages to his subjects and secured their allegiance to the Catholic Church. An important locus for cultural activity at court, especially as related to the Habsburgs' political power, was the Emperor's public image. Ferdinand III offers a fascinating case study in monarchical representation, for the war necessitated that he revise the image he had cultivated at the beginning of his reign, that of a powerful, victorious warrior. Weaver argues that by focusing on the patronage of sacred music (rather than the more traditional visual and theatrical means of representation), Ferdinand III was able to uphold his reputation as a pious Catholic reformer and subtly revise his triumphant martial image without sacrificing his power, while also achieving his Counter-Reformation goal of unifying his hereditary lands under the Catholic church. Drawing upon recent methodological approaches to the representation of other early modern monarchs, as well as upon the theory of confessionalization, this book places the sacred vocal music composed by imperial musicians into the rich cultural, political, and religious contexts of mid-seventeenth-century Central Europe. The book incorporates dramatic productions such as opera, oratorio, and Jesuit drama (as well as works in other media), but the primary focus is the more numerous and more frequently performed Latin-texted paraliturgical genre of the motet, which has generally not been considered by scholars as a vehicle for monarchical representation. By examining the representation of this little-studied emperor during a crucial time in European history, this book opens a window into the unique world view of the Habsburgs, allowing for a previously untold narrative of the end of the Thirty Years' War as seen through the eyes of this important ruling family.

Author : Jonathan Wainwright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351566261

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From Renaissance to Baroque by Jonathan Wainwright Pdf

Historians of instruments and instrumental music have long recognised that there was a period of profound change in the seventeenth century, when the consorts or families of instruments developed during the Renaissance were replaced by the new models of the Baroque period. Yet the process is still poorly understood, in part because each instrument has traditionally been considered in isolation, and changes in design have rarely been related to changes in the way instruments were used, or what they played. The essays in this book are by distinguished international authors that include specialists in particular instruments together with those interested in such topics as the early history of the orchestra, iconography, pitch and continuo practice. The book will appeal to instrument makers and academics who have an interest in achieving a better understanding of the process of change in the seventeenth century, but the book also raises questions that any historically aware performer ought to be asking about the performance of Baroque music. What sorts of instruments should be used? At what pitch? In which temperament? In what numbers and/or combinations? For this reason, the book will be invaluable to performers, academics, instrument makers and anyone interested in the fascinating period of change from the 'Renaissance' to the 'Baroque'.

Author : Richard Wistreich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351557986

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Monteverdi by Richard Wistreich Pdf

Claudio Monteverdi is now recognized as the towering figure of a critical transitional moment of Western music history: relentless innovator in every genre within chamber, church and theatre music; self-proclaimed leader of a 'new dispensation' between words and their musical expression; perhaps even 'Creator of Modern Music'. During recent years, as his arrestingly attractive music has been brought back to life in performance, so too have some of the most outstanding musicologists focussed intensely on Monteverdi as they worked through the 'big' questions in the historiography and hermeneutics of early Baroque music, including musical representation of language; compositional theory; social, institutional, cultural and gender history; performance practices and more. The 17 articles in this volume have been selected by Richard Wistreich to exemplify the best scholarship in English and because each, in retrospect, turns out to have been a ground-breaking contribution to one or more significant strands in Monteverdi studies.

Author : Melvin P. Unger
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 0810873923

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Historical Dictionary of Choral Music by Melvin P. Unger Pdf

The Historical Dictionary of Choral Music focuses on choral music and practice in the Western world from the medieval era to the 21st century. This is done through a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 1000 cross-referenced dictionary entries on important composers, genres, conductors, institutions, styles, and technical terms of choral music.

Author : Joseph P. Swain
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781538151624

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Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music by Joseph P. Swain Pdf

Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 500 cross-referenced entries on composers, instruments, cities, and technical terms.

Author : Tim Carter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780197759219

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Monteverdi's Voices by Tim Carter Pdf

"Ah, alas!" The "faithful shepherd" Mirtillo's woeful sigh of unrequited love, delivered with outrageous musical dissonances, has rung through the ages since the first publication of Claudio Monteverdi's madrigal "Cruda Amarilli" in 1605. But there is far more to the composer's nine books of madrigals than dissonant progressions--they are an integral part of the intellectual, artistic, and practical worlds of creation and performance in Italian musical and literary culture of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. While Monteverdi is also recognized for his operas and sacred works, it is no surprise that the madrigal dominated his output through his long career in Cremona, Mantua, and Venice. Author Tim Carter illustrates how the composer's wonderfully witty settings of Italian verse ran the gamut from compositions in the traditional polyphonic style for five unaccompanied voices to those in more modern idioms for one or more singers and instruments. Their poets included the major figures of the day--Torquato Tasso, Battista Guarini, and Giambattista Marino--as well as the classics, not least of all Petrarch, with texts that embraced all the current literary genres from lyric through epic to dramatic. Monteverdi also repeatedly asked and answered the fundamental question of any musical setting of poetry concerning the relationship between poetic and musical voice(s). Carter offers a more holistic perspective than has been adopted in the partial studies of Monteverdi's madrigals to date and moves far beyond conventional views of the composer and his work. He considers how Monteverdi engaged with poetry, with sound, and with the performers for whom he was writing. As Carter shows, Monteverdi was irascible, exasperating, and prone to error. Yet his astonishing musical mind was also inventive, playful, and capable of the most extraordinary wit--producing madrigals that continue to invite new approaches both to their study and to their performance.

Author : Tim Carter,John Butt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521792738

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The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music by Tim Carter,John Butt Pdf

First published in 2005, this title provides extensive knowledge on seventeenth-century music.