'Allegri's Miserere' in the Sistine Chapel - Image 1

Price loading...

Boydell Press 'Allegri's Miserere' in the Sistine Chapel

Name: 'Allegri's Miserere' in the Sistine Chapel
Brand: Boydell Press

Classical Music

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price history will appear here once data is collected from Amazon.

Price Distribution

No price data available for histogram

Description

The Miserere by Italian composer Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652) is one of the most popular, oft performed and recorded choral pieces of late Renaissance/early Baroque music. Yet the piece known today bears little resemblanceto Allegri's original or to the piece as it was performed before 1870. The Miserere attributed to the Italian composer Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652) is one of the most popular, often performed and recorded choral pieces of late Renaissance/early Baroque music. It was composed during the reign of Pope Urban VIII in the 1630s, for the exclusive use of the Papal Choir in the Sistine Chapel during Holy Week, the last of thirteen surviving Misereres sung at the services of Tenebræ since 1514. When the young Mozart visited Rome, so the story goes, he transcribed it from memory, risking excommunication but helping posterity to reclaim the piece. Yet the Miserere known today bears little resemblance to Allegri's original or to its method of performance before 1900. This book is the first detailed account of this iconic work's performance history in the Sistine Chapel, in particular focussing on its heyday in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Rather than looking at the Miserere as a work on paper, the key to its genesis - as this book reveals - can only be found in a performance context. The book includes consideration both of the implications of that context in recreating it for performance, and of the history and practice of the "English Miserere" - the version commonly heard today. Appendices present key source transcriptions and two performance editions.

Key Features

Allegri's Miserere' in the Sistine Chapel

Product type: ABIS BOOK

Brand: Boydell Press

Product Specifications

Brand: Boydell Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1783274875
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Music > Styles > Classical Music
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 29 May 2020
Listed Since: 19 July 2019

Barcode

No barcode data available

Boydell Press 'Allegri's Miserere' in the Sistine Chapel

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price Distribution

Description

Key Features

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Papal Patronage & the Music of St Peter′s, 1380–1513

Choral Monuments: Studies of Eleven Choral Masterworks

Monteverdi's Voices: A Poetics of the Madrigal

The Monteverdi Vespers of 1610: Music, Context, Performance

I Capuleti E I Montecchi: Piano/Vocal Score Reduction Based on the Critical Edition

Aspects of the Secular Cantata in Late Baroque Italy

Requiem (Messa da Requiem) (Full Score) (Choir)

Saint Peter's Basilica in the Vatican (Mirabilia Italiae)

Routledge - Mapping the Motet in the Post-Tridentine Era

Missa in C minor K.427 (Great Mass in C minor) (Full Score)

Divining the Oracle – Monteverdi′s Seconda Prattica

Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas

The Madrigals of Michaelangelo Rossi V10: Volume 10 (Monuments of Renaissance Music MRM)

Psalterium Romanum: Pars Diurna

Handel (Composers Across Cultures)

The Book of Requiems, 1550-1650: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Period

Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) K.492 (Vocal Score)

Michelangelo and the English Martyrs

The Choral-Orchestral Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams: Autographs, Context, Discourse

Bolognese Instrumental Music, 1660–1710: Spiritual Comfort, Courtly Delight, and Commercial Triumph

Bolognese Instrumental Music, 1660–1710: Spiritual Comfort, Courtly Delight, and Commercial Triumph

Lieder Volume 1, High Voice & Piano

Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine

Joseph Haydn Nelson Mass Vocal Score SATB Sheet Music by Novello