Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The 1610 settings and the liturgy of Vespers
- 3 The 1610 print and Monteverdi's career
- 4 ‘Suited to the chapels or chambers of princes’
- 5 ‘And all on a cantus firmus’
- 6 Issues of performance
- Appendices
- 1 Second Vespers for the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin (15 August)
- 2 Plainsongs, texts and translations
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Discography
- Index
1 - Second Vespers for the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin (15 August)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The 1610 settings and the liturgy of Vespers
- 3 The 1610 print and Monteverdi's career
- 4 ‘Suited to the chapels or chambers of princes’
- 5 ‘And all on a cantus firmus’
- 6 Issues of performance
- Appendices
- 1 Second Vespers for the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin (15 August)
- 2 Plainsongs, texts and translations
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Discography
- Index
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- Monteverdi: Vespers (1610) , pp. 95 - 99Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997