Merula: Il primo libro de motetti, e sonate concertati, Op. 6 (1624)

Name: Merula: Il primo libro de motetti, e sonate concertati, Op. 6 (1624)
SKU: B236
Price: 240.00 USD

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Tarquinio Merula

Il primo libro de motetti, e sonate concertati, Op. 6 (1624)

Edited by Jonathan P. Wainwright

B236 Merula: Il primo libro de motetti, e sonate concertati, Op. 6 (1624)

978-1-9872-0858-0 Full Score (2023) 9x12, xvi + 164 pp.

$240.00

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B236

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Merula: Il primo libro de motetti, e sonate concertati, Op. 6 (1624) (PARTS)

Instrumental Part(s) (2023)

Set of 3 partbooks (vn.; va.; vne.)

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Abstract

Tarquinio Merula (1595–1665) is an important composer of small-scale concertato music, reflecting the influence of composers such as Claudio Monteverdi and Alessandro Grandi. Merula was also a prolific composer of instrumental music who was important in the transition of the canzona francese towards the Corellian sonata. The sole copy of Merula’s Il primo libro de motetti, e sonate concertati (Venice: Alessando Vincenti, 1624) survives in an incomplete state in the Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica, Bologna—the set of partbooks lacks the Basso book and therefore no complete edition of the collection has previously been thought possible. However, the identification of a number of pieces in English manuscripts from the court of Charles I and his Queen Henrietta Maria has enabled the completion of the vocal pieces in the collection; the instrumental pieces have here been editorially reconstructed.

Contents

1. O gloriosa Domina (AT, B.c.)

2. Cantate Domino (CC, B.c.)

3. O bone Jesu (CB, B.c.)

4. Dominus in igne veniet (CB, B.c.)

5. Misericordias Domini (CA, B.c.)

6. O quam dilecta (CC, B.c.)

7. Fontes et omnia (BB, B.c.)

8. Nigra sum (C, Vn., B.c.)

9. Cantate, jubilate (C, Vn., B.c.)

10. Sonata prima (Vn., “overo Cornetto”; Vne., B.c.)

11. Sonata seconda (Vn., “overo Cornetto”; Vne., B.c.)

12. O quam dulcis es tu (TTB, B.c.)

13. Sat est Domine (CTB, B.c.)

14. Judicant sancti (CAT, B.c.)

15. O intemerata (CTB, B.c.)

16. Jesu dulcissime (CATB, B.c.)

17. Magnificate Dominum (CATB, B.c.)

18. Cum complerentur dies Pentecostes (CATB, B.c.)

19. Cantate Domino (CCBB, B.c.)

20. Favus distillans (C; Vn., Va., Vne., “overo Tromboni”; B.c.)

21. Benedicta tu (CATTB, B.c.)

22. Benignissime Jesu (CATTB, B.c.)

Bio

Jonathan Wainwright is Professor of Music at the University of York, UK and has written extensively on early-modern English and Italian music. He has also been active as a performer and was the first Director of the Girls Choir at York Minster; his recordings range from a CD of Sarum plainsong through to Percy Whitlock’s Organ Symphony, recorded in York Minster.