Bernabei: Orpheus ecclesiasticus

Name: Bernabei: Orpheus ecclesiasticus
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Giuseppe Antonio Bernabei

Orpheus ecclesiasticus

Edited by Michael W. Nordbakke

B195 Bernabei: Orpheus ecclesiasticus

978-0-89579-849-7 Full Score (2017) 9x12, xii + 203 pp.

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Bernabei: Orpheus ecclesiasticus (PARTS)

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Abstract

When Giuseppe Antonio Bernabei (1649–1732) arrived in Munich in 1677, he had already won a reputation in his native Rome as an eminent keyboard player and as a composer for church, chamber, and theater, having served for five years as maestro di cappella at San Luigi dei Francesi, a focal point of Roman musical life. In Munich he went on to compose operas and church music, including motets in stile antico, which earned praise from Padre Martini for contrapuntal artistry more than forty years after Bernabei’s death. In 1698, Bernabei published a set of twelve trio sonatas, Orpheus ecclesiasticus, for two violins and continuo. The delightful music does make great technical demands of the performers, but this is richly compensated for by contrapuntal craftsmanship. Thematic coherence, continuity, and long-breathed structures are essential features of Bernabei’s style.

Instrumental parts are available as a separate purchase.

Contents

Orpheus ecclesiasticus

Dedication and Preface

Canon at the Unison for Six Voices

Symphonia No. 1 in G Minor

I. Hilariter

II. Graviter

III. Fuga: [Hilariter]

IV. Distincte

Symphonia No. 2 in G Major

I. Hilariter

II. Suaviter

III. Distincte

IV. Suaviter

V. Hilariter

Symphonia No. 3 in A Major

I. Hilariter

II. Distincte

III. Suaviter

IV. Hilariter

Symphonia No. 4 in A Minor

I. Distincte

II. Suaviter—Hilariter—Suaviter

III. Distincte

IV. Suaviter

V. Distincte

Symphonia No. 5 in C Major

I. Suaviter

II. Fuga: [Hilariter]

III. Suaviter

IV. Hilariter

Symphonia No. 6 in C Minor

I. Graviter

II. Hilariter

III. Suaviter

IV. Fuga: [Hilariter]

V. Suaviter

VI. Hilariter sed Distincte

Symphonia No. 7 in G Major

I. Graviter

II. Distincte

III. Suaviter

IV. Hilariter et Cito

V. Suaviter

VI. Fuga: Hilariter

Symphonia No. 8 in F Major

I. Hilariter

II. Graviter

III. Distincte et Hilariter

IV. Suaviter—Hilariter sed Distincte—Suaviter—Hilariter sed Distincte

V. Suaviter

VI. Suaviter

VII. Hilariter sed Distincte

Symphonia No. 9 in E Minor

I. Graviter

II. Hilariter

III. Graviter

IV. Fuga: Hilariter

V. Graviter

VI. Hilariter et Distincte

Symphonia No. 10 in D Minor

I. Graviter

II. Suaviter

III. Fuga: [Hilariter]

IV. Graviter—Hilariter et Distincte—Graviter—Hilariter et Distincte

V. Graviter

VI. Hilariter et Distincte

Symphonia No. 11 in B-flat Major

I. Hilariter

II. Graviter

III. Hilariter

IV. Graviter

V. Hilariter et Distincte

VI. Fuga: Hilariter

VII. Graviter

VIII. Hilariter

Symphonia No. 12 in D Major

I. Hilariter et Distincte

II. Graviter

III. Hilariter et Distincte

IV. Suaviter

V. Fuga: Hilariter

VI. Graviter

VII. Hilariter

Canon for Four Voices