The Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 : Music, Context, Performance: Music, Context, Performance

Jeffrey Kurtzman

Clarendon Press, 6 sty 2000 - 624

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.

Spis treści

• Sources Controversies and Speculations The Early and Modern History of Monteverdis Vespers: 11
• The Liturgy of Vespers and the Antiphon Problem: 56
• A Brief History of Vespers in the Sixteenth Century: 79
• Vesper Publications and Modern Style 16001620 A Comparison of Monteverdis Vespers with the Contemporaneous Repertoire: 99
• II THE MUSIC: 183
• A Preliminary Note on Analytical Method and Terminology: 185
• Compositions Based on a Cantus Firmus The Response and Psalms: 202
• Compositions Based on a Cantus Firmus The Magnificats: 256
• Compositions Based on a Cantus Firmus The Hymn and the Sonata sopra Sancta Maria: 293
• Compositions not Based on a Cantus Firmus Nigra Sum: 308
• II: 325
• III PERFORMANCE PRACTICE: 345
• A Philosophical Note on Historical Performance Practice: 347
• Continuo Instruments: 354
• Organs and Organ Registration: 358
• Continuo Realization: 367
• Voices and Choirs: 376
• Vocal Style: 386
• Pitch and Transposition: 404
• Obbligato Instruments: 412
• Instrumental Doubling and Substitution for Vocal Parts: 423
• Metre and Tempo: 433
• Vocal and Instrumental Ornamentation: 467
• Tuning and Temperament: 488
• Historical Pronunciation: 495
• Psalm Cursus and their Feasts: 500
• Rubrics Regarding Vespers and Marian Antiphons: 503
• Texts and Structural Outlines of Compositions Based on a Cantus Firmus: 504
• Discography: 515
• Sixteenth and SeventeenthCentury Musical Sources: 525
• Theoretical Treatises of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: 542
• Bibliography: 547
• Index of Text Incipits and Composition Titles: 573
• Index of Names: 577
• General Index: 592

Informacje bibliograficzne

• Tytuł: The Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 : Music, Context, Performance: Music, Context, Performance
• Autor: Jeffrey Kurtzman
• Wydawca: Clarendon Press, 2000
• ISBN: 0191590711, 9780191590719
• Liczba stron: 624