The Monteverdi Vespers of 1610: Music, Context, Performance

by Jeffrey Kurtzman

Overview

This is the only extensive study of the Monteverdi Vespers, vastly expanding on the author's 1978 set of essays on the subject, long since out-of-print. The volume studies the Vespers from the perspectives of its musical and liturgical origins and context, presents analytical essays on the music, and examines seventeenth-century performance practice as it pertains to the Vespers. Appendices include bibliographies and an analytical discography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198164098
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/16/2000
Pages:	624
Product dimensions:	9.21(w) x 6.14(h) x 1.31(d)

About the Author

University of Washington in St Louis

Editorial Reviews

"Authoritative...monumental...invaluable...enviably thorough...Kurtzman succeeds in offering a quantum leap forward of the greatest significance."—Music and Letters

"Kurtzman has distilled his encyclopedic knowledge of early seventeenth-century Italian liturgical music....Although centered on the Vespers, the discussion touches on many subjects that will hold the attention of anyone interested in early seventeenth-century Italian sacred music. What Kurtzman has done, then, is to use one of the great (and problematic) masterpieces of music to shed light on an entire repertory....This book is a major contribution to the scholarship not only of Monteverdi's Vespers, but also of North Italian sacred music of the early part of the seventeenth century." —Journal of the American Musicological Society

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