1st Edition

Vesper and Compline Music for Four Principal Voices Agostino Agazzari, Giovanni Francesco Anerio, Giovanni Battista Biondi da Cesena, Maurizio Cazzati, Antonio Cifra, Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Bonifazio Graziani, Giovanni Legrenzi, Isabella Leonarda, Tarquinio Merula, Lodovico Viadana

Edited By Jeffrey Kurtzman Copyright 1998

    First published in 1998. Volume 14 out of a collection of 25 of Seventeenth- Century Italian Sacred Music, focuses on the works of Vesper, and compline music for four principal voices. This series presents a large selection of Italian sacred music scored from printed part-books, works which have not been published in modem editions. Sacred music constitutes the largest gap in our present understanding of seventeenth-century Italian music. The volumes of Vesper and Compline music are arranged according to the number of principal voices, chronologically within each volume, beginning with works for one and two voices, progressing to works for three and four choirs.

    Chapter 1 DOMINE AD ADIUVANDUM; Chapter 2 DOMINE AD ADIUVANDUM; Concertato. A 4. voci con quatro Parti di Ripieno, & doi Violini se piace; Chapter 3 DOMINE AD ADIUVANDUM; A quattro voci, con Violini; Chapter 4 DE PROFUNDIS; 4. Toni; Chapter 5 IN TE DOMINE SPERAVI; A 4. Octavi Toni; Chapter 6 DIXIT DOMINUS; Primi Toni; Chapter 7 CREDIDI; Terzo Tono. à 4 Voce pari; Chapter 8 BEATI OMNES; Quinti Toni; Chapter 9 LAUDATE PUERI; A 6. Doi Canti, Doi Tenori, & Doi Violini; Chapter 10 LÆTATUS SUM; Concertato senza intonatione A 4; Chapter 11 LAUDATE PUERI; Concertato. A 4. con Violini se piace; Chapter 12 MAGNIFICAT; Concertato A 4. con Violini se piace; Chapter 13 DIXIT DOMINUS; A 4. Voci e Due Violini; Chapter 14 ISTE CONFESSOR; In Natali SS. Confessorum Tribus Vocibus cum secundo Choro

    Biography

    Professor of Music Jeffrey Kurtzman (University of Washington in St Louis)