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Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era

Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Nine Settings of the Litanies de la Vierge
Edited by David C. Rayl

B 72	ISBN 0-89579-302-4	(1994) xx+242 pp.	$82.00
	ISBN 978-0-89579-302-7 (13-digit)
B 72P	Parts		$53.00

Although Charpentier is regarded as one of the foremost composers of late seventeenth-century France, little of his enormously varied output of liturgical music is known. This volume contains his nine settings of the Litanies de la Vierge, also known as the Litany of Loreto, which are scored for a variety of vocal and instrumental forces ranging from two settings for three voices and continuo to a large-scale, multipartite setting for soloists, chorus, recorders, violins, and continuo. The edition is based on the autograph scores of these works, scattered throughout the 26 volumes of the Mélanges autographes, held by the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (Rès. Vm¹ 159).

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Contents: Litanies de la Vierge à 3 voix pareilles (H. 82); Litanies de la Vierge à 6 voix et deux dessus de violles (H. 83); Litanies de la Vierge à 3 voix pareilles avec instruments (H. 84); Litanies de la Vierge (H. 85); Litanies de la Vierge à 2 dessus et une basse chantante (H. 86); Litanies de la Vierge à 4 voix (H. 87); Litanies de la Vierge à 4 voix (H. 88); Litanies de la Vierge (H. 89); Courtes Litanies de la Vierge à 4 voix (H. 90)

Parts: vn. 1; vn. 2; treble 1; treble 2; b.c.

For other music by Charpentier, see B 48 and B 63. See the article on Charpentier in Embellishments 2.