O'Reilly 'Allegri's Miserere' in the Sistine Chapel

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78744-901-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 388 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Reilly, Graham

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Sinfonische Musik & Ensembles
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Myth and reality
Part One: The 16th and 17th centuries
1. Context
2. Creation
3. Transformation
Part Two: The 18th century
4. Show business
5. 18th century sources 1 - Blainville and Mozart
6. 18th century sources 2 - The Paris and Manchester manuscripts
7. 'Con suoi rifiorimente, come si deve eseguire' - What the earliest ornamented manuscripts show
Part Three: The 19th century
8. The Papal Choir in the 19th century 1 - Giuseppe Baini
9. 19th century sources 1 - British Library Add. MS 31525 and related manuscripts
10. 19th century sources 2 - Alfieri's Il Salmo Miserere of 1840
11. The Papal Choir in the 19th century 2 - Domenico Mustafà
12. 19th century sources 3 - The Vatican manuscript of Domenico Mustafà
Part Four: Performing the Miserere in the 20th century
13. The current 'popular' version of the Allegri Miserere: the 'English Miserere'
14. Introduction to the editions
15. Aspects of performance practice 1 - Performing pitch
16. Aspects of performance practice 2 - Expression
17. Aspects of performance practice 3 - Performing forces
18. Conclusion
Part Five: Appendices, editions and notes
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

O'Reilly Graham:
GRAHAM O'REILLY is founder and conductor of the French-based Ensemble William Byrd, which recorded the Miserere from a late Vatican manuscript in 2000.