Vesper and Compline Music for Two Principal Voices (Seventeenth-Century Italian Sacred Music)

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. Domine Ad Adiuvandum / By Sisto Reina -- Domine Ad Adiuvandum / By Giovanni Battista Bassani -- Magnificat / By Giovanni Battista Biondi Da Cesena -- Magnificat / By Don Adriano Banchieri -- Laudate Pueri : Primo Tono / By Giacomo Finetti -- Laudate Pueri / By Giovanni Rovetta -- In Te Domine Speravi / By Giovanni Antonio Rigatti -- Nisi Dominus / By Orazio Tarditi -- Confitebor Tibi Domine / By Maurizio Cazzati -- Credidi / By Francesco Petrobelli -- Confitebor Tibi Domine / By Giovanni Battista Bassani -- Omnes De Saba ; Dum Esset Rex / By Giovanni Francesco Anerio -- Nigra Sum ; Ab Initio / By Paolo Agostini -- Conditor Alme Siderum / By Giovanni Rovetta -- Iste Confessor / By Orazio Tarditi -- Iste Confessor / By Francesco Cavalli. Edited With An Introduction By Jeffrey Kurtzman. Acc. For Continuo Or Continuo With Additional Instruments. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Part of a series of full-score volumes of 17th-century Italian sacred music which have been largely been unavailable for study or performance, includes a comprehensive introduction, composer history and offers modern notation for performers. These volumes comprise music for the Roman Catholic Office Hours of Vespers and Compline published in Italy during the seventeenth century.