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 t...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Bibliographische Detailangaben

1. Verfasser:	O'Reilly, Graham 1947- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Woodbridge, Suffolk The Boydell Press is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd 2020
Schlagworte:	Allegri, Gregorio / 1582-1652 / Miserere Allegri, Gregorio > 1582-1652 > Il salmo Miserere mei Deus Cappella Sistina (Vatican Palace, Vatican City) Cappella Musicale Pontificia Geschichte Choral music Performance practice (Music) Psalms (Music) / 51st Psalm Choruses, Sacred, Unaccompanied Aufführung
Online-Zugang:	BSB01 UBG01 Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	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 Tenebrae 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
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Jan 2023) Introduction : Myth and reality -- The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- The eighteenth century -- The nineteenth century -- Performing the Miserere in the twentieth century -- Appendices, editions and notes
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 372 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781787449015
DOI:	10.1017/9781787449015