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  3. Monteverdi: Vespers (1610)
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
January 2010
Print publication year:
1997
Online ISBN:
9780511620119
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511620119
Subjects:
Seventeenth-Century Music, Music, Music: General Interest
Series:
Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Book description

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.

Reviews

‘John Whenham approaches his task with an appropriately passionate sobriety, his impeccable scholarship presents all the evidence … his speculations always command respect.’

Source: The Musical Times

‘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.’

Source: Canor

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