Masses by Giovanni Pietro Finatti, Maurizio Cazzati, Giulio Cesare Arresti


Book Description

The purpose of this series is to provide a large repertory 17th century Italian sacred music in clear modern editions that are both practical and faithful to the original sources.




Masses by Maurizio Cazzati, Giovanni Antonio Grossi, Giovanni Legrenzi


Book Description

The purpose of this series is to provide a large repertory 17th century Italian sacred music in clear modern editions that are both practical and faithful to the original sources.




Vesper and Compline Music for One Principal Voice


Book Description

This volume is part of a series of 25 full-score volumes of 17th-century Italian sacred music, a repertoire that has largely been unavailable for study or performance. It includes a comprehensive historical and biographical introduction, focuses on composers significant in their own time, and offers modern notation for contemporary performers.




Vesper and Compline Music for Three Principal Voices


Book Description

First Published in 1998. A New Series Fills a Void in 17th-Century Italian Music Drawing on the riches of a largely unknown repertoire, this innovative series makes available in modern score a large selection of Italian sacred music scored from printed part-books that has never before been published in modern editions. Conveniently organized and presented in modern scoreEach genre is organized for easy accessibility. Mass settings are presented in chronological order. Vesper and compline music is arranged according to the number of voices, chronologically within each volume, beginning with works for one and two voices and progressing to compositions for multiple choirs.




Vesper and Compline Music for Five Principal Voices, Part I


Book Description

This volume is part of a series of 25 full-score volumes of 17th-century Italian sacred music, a repertoire that has largely been unavailable for study or performance. It includes a comprehensive historical and biographical introduction, focuses on composers significant in their own time, and offers modern notation for contemporary performers.




Vesper and Compline Music for Multiple Choirs


Book Description

Classics of seventeenth-century Italian sacred music set in modern notation, this third part of Vesper and Compline Music for Multiple Choirs features works by Giacomo Giacobbi, Viriglio Mazzochi, Tarquinio Merula and Francesco Soriano.




Masses by Giovanni Francesco Capello, Bentivoglio Lev, and Ercole Porta


Book Description

The purpose of this series is to provide a large repertory 17th century Italian sacred music in clear modern editions that are both practical and faithful to the original sources.







The Birth of the Orchestra : History of an Institution, 1650-1815


Book Description

This is the story of the orchestra, from 16th-century string bands to the "classical" orchestra of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Spitzer and Zaslaw document orchestral organization, instrumentation, social roles, repertories, and performance practices in Europe and the American colonies, concluding around 1800 with the widespread awareness of the orchestra as a central institution in European life.