The European musical heritage, 800-1750 / [compiled by] Sarah Fuller ; consulting editor in music, Allan W. Schindler.

Other author Fuller, Sarah, compiler.
Other author Schindler, Allan editor.
Format Musical Score
EditionFirst edition.
Publication InfoNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, ©1987.
Description1 score (xvi, 621 pages) : facsimiles, maps ; 29 cm
Subjects

Contents 8th-11th century: sacred monophony. Easter Mass Proper and Ordinary. Resurrexi (Introit) -- Quem queritis in sepulchro (Introit trope 1) ; Ecce pater cunctis (Introit trope 2) -- Kyrie Cunctipotens genitor (melismatic and Latin versions) -- Gloria -- Haec dies (Gradual) -- Alleluia Pascha nostrum -- Fulgens praeclara (prose) -- Credo -- Terra tremuit (Offertory) -- Sanctus -- Agnus Dei -- Pascha nostrum (Communion) -- Ite, missa est -- First Vespers on the Feast of the Nativity of the Lord (excerpts). Deus in adjutorium (opening versicle) -- Rex pacificus (antiphon and Psalm 112) -- Magnificatus est (antiphon and Psalm 124) -- Veni redemptor gentium (hymn) -- Benedicamus Domino (closing versicle) -- Modal formulas. 9th-century series (from Commemoratio brevis de tonis et psalmis modulandis) -- 12th-century series (from De Musica by John of Afflighem) -- 8th-11th century: polyphony. Theorists' examples. Rex caeli Domine (organum at the fourth, from Musica Enchiriadis) ; Rex caeli Domine (sacred song, principal melody of no. 4a) -- Sit gloria Domini (organum at the fifth with octave doubling, from Musica Enchiriadis) ; Sit gloria Domini (Psalm 103, verse 31, principal melody of no. 4b) -- Ipsi soli (organum, from Micrologus) / Guido of Arezzo ; Ipsi soli (antiphon, principal melody of no. 4c) -- Kyrie Cunctipotens genitor (from Ad organum faciendum) -- Alleluia in 5th performance mode (from Ad organum faciendum) ; Alleluia Justus ut palma (principal melody of no. 4e) -- Alleluia Te martyrum / Wulfstan of Winchester (?) -- Castitatis lilium effloruit (versus) -- Liturgical chant. Ave regina caelorum (votive antiphon) -- Veni sancte spiritus (prose) -- Pange lingua gloriosi corporis (hymn) -- Aeterna Christi munera (hymn) -- 12th-13th century: secular monophony. Troubadour and trouvère songs. Can vei la lauzeta mover / Bernart de Ventadorn -- Baros de mon dan covit / Peire Vidal -- Fortz chausa es (1199) / Gaucelm Faidit -- Chevalier mult estes guariz (Crusaders' song, 1147) -- Biaus m'est estez / Gace Brulé -- Prendes i garde (rondeau) / Guillaume d'Amiens -- 12th-13th century: polyphony. Viderunt Emmanuel (Aquitanian versus) -- Kyrie Cunctipotens genitor (from Codex Calixtinus) -- Alleluia Pascha nostrum (organum duplum) / Leonin -- Alleluia Pascha nostrum (organum duplum, later revision of verse) -- Alleluia Pascha nostrum (organum triplum) / Perotin (?) -- Conductus: Deus in adjutorium (conductus sine cauda) ; O tocius Asie (conductus cum cauda) -- 13th-century motets (to c. 1250). Discant clausula on Regnat (from Alleluia Hodie Maria virgo) -- Ad solitum vomitum/Regnat (two-voice motet) -- Ad solitum vomitum/Regnat (three-voice conductus motet) -- Depositum creditum/Ad solitum vomitum/Regnat (Latin double motet) -- Alleluia Hodie Maria virgo (source chant for Regnat clausula) -- L'autre jour/Au tens pascour/In seculum (French double motet) -- "A certain Spaniard," In seculum breve (instrumental hocket) -- 13th-century motets (after c. 1250). El mois de mai/De se debent bigami/Kyrie (French double motet) -- On parole de batre/A Paris/Frese nouvele (French double motet on secular tenor) -- Alle psallite cum luya/Alle psallite cum luya/Alleluya (Latin voice-exchange motet) -- Aucun ont trouvé/Lonc tans/Annuntiantes (French double motet) -- 14th-century: Ars nova. Tribum que/Quoniam secta/Merito hec patimur (isorhythmic motet) / Philippe de Vitry -- Bone pastor Guillerme/Bone pastor qui pastores/Bone pastor (isorhythmic motet) ; Nes que on porroit (ballade) ; Quant j'ay l'espart (rondeau) ; Dame a vous sans retollir (virelai) / Guillaume de Machaut -- 14th century: Trecento. Non al suo amante (madrigale) / Jacopo da Bologna -- Tosto che l'alba (caccia) / Gherardello da Firenze -- Questa fanciull'amor (ballata) / Francesco Landini -- Late 14th century: Ars subtilior. Ma trédol rosignol joly (virelai) / Borlet (?) -- Sus un' fontayne (virelai) / Johannes Ciconia -- 15th century: sacred polyphony. Credo (Opem nobis) ; Ave regina caelorum (motet) ; Ave regina caelorum (melody of Sarum tradition) / Leonel Power -- Beata mater (motet) / John Dunstable -- Christe, redemptor omnium (hymn) ; Agnus Dei from Missa Se la face ay pale ; Se la face ay pale (tenor of three-voice song) ; Ave regina caelorum (III) (motet) / Guillaume Dufay -- Agnus Dei from Missa Mi-mi / Johannes Ockeghem -- 15th century: secular song. Ce moys de may soyons lies et joyeux (rondeau) ; Adieu m'amour, adieu ma joye (rondeau) / Guillaume Dufay -- De tous biens plaine (rondeau) / Hayne van Ghizeghem --
Contents Late 15th-early 16th century: sacred. Ave Maria gratia plena ... virgo serena (motet) ; Agnus Dei II from Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales ; Kyrie from Missa Pange lingua ; Agnus Dei from Missa Pange lingua / Josquin Desprez -- Late 15th-early 16th century: secular. Faulte d'argent (chanson a 5) / Josquin Desprez -- Faulte d'argent (chanson a 3) / Antoine de Févin -- La mi la sol (instrumental piece) / Heinrich Isaac -- Señora de hermosura (villancico) ; Triste España (romance) / Juan del Encina -- Orsù orsù car'signori (Italian carnival song) -- Io non compro più speranza (frottola with an introductory recercare by Franciscus Bossinensis) / Marchetto Cara -- 16th century (from c. 1520): sacred. Aus tiefer Not (chorale melody, 1524) / Martin Luther -- Aus tiefer Not (four-part setting, 1524) / Johann Walter -- Aus tiefer Not (four-part setting, 1544) / Arnold von Bruck -- Aus tiefer Not (four-part setting, 1724) / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Ave regina caelorum (motet) / Nicholas Gombert -- Veni sponsa Christi (motet) / Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina -- Veni sponsa Christi (antiphon) -- Kyrie from Missa Veni sponsa Christi / Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina -- Tristis est anima mea (motet) ; In teneris annis (Sibylla cimmeria), section IV of Prophetiae Sibyllarum / Orlande de Lassus -- Miserere mihi, Domine (motet from Cantiones Sacrae) / William Byrd -- Miserere mihi, Domine (antiphon) -- Canzona Septimi Toni a 8 (from Sacrae Symphoniae, 1597) / Giovanni Gabrieli -- 16th century (from c. 1520): secular. Ou mettra l'on ung baiser (Parisian chanson) / Clèment Janequin -- Pavan 1 (from El Maestro) / Luis de Milán -- Recercada settima (from Tratado de glosas) / Diego Ortiz -- Il bianco e dolce cigno (madrigal) / Cipriano de Rore -- Scaldava il sol (madrigal) / Luca Marenzio -- Cruda Amarilli (madrigal) / Claudio Monteverdi -- Moro, lasso, al mio duolo (madrigal) / Carlo Gesualdo -- 17th century: vocal. Perfidissimo volto (solo madrigal from Le Nuove Musiche) / Giulio Caccini -- Cruda Amarilli (solo madrigal) / Sigismondo d'India -- Flow my teares (lute song) ; Lachrimae Gementes (instrumental pavane) / John Dowland -- Zefiro torna (continuo madrigal from Scherzi musicali) / Claudio Monteverdi -- In ecclesiis (concertato motet from Symphoniae sacrae II) / Giovanni Gabrieli -- O quam tu pulchra es (from Symphonie sacrae I) ; Saul, Saul was verfolgst du mich? (from Symphoniarum Sacrarum Tertia Pars) / Heinrich Schütz -- Euridice (excerpts from scene 2) / Jacopo Peri -- Orfeo (excerpts from Act II). Vi ricordi through Ahi caso acerbo ; A l'amara novella through Ahi caso acerbo / Claudio Monteverdi -- L'incoronazione di Poppea (Act I, scene 3) / Claudio Monteverdi -- Jephte (oratorio). Cum autem victor through Cantate mecum ; Cum vidisset Jephte through Heu mihi! filia mea / Giacomo Carissimi -- Scipione Africano (Act II, scene 8) / Francesco Cavalli -- Alpi nevose e dure (cantata) / Antonio Cesti -- Alceste (Act II, scenes 7-8) / Jean-Baptiste Lully -- Dido and Aeneas (concluding scene) / Henry Purcell -- 17th century: instrumental. John come kiss me now (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book) / William Byrd -- Jesus Christus unser Heiland, der von uns (from Tabulatura Nova, part III) / Samuel Scheidt -- Jesus Christus unser Heiland, der von uns (chorale melody) -- Toccata no. 8 (from Toccate e partite ... libro primo) ; Canzona dopo l'epistola (from La Messa della Domenica, Fiori musicale) / Girolamo Frescobaldi -- Suite VI / Johann Jacob Froberger -- Prélude a l'imitation de Mr. Froberger (unmeasured prelude) / Louis Couperin -- Sonata in dialogo, "La Viena" / Salamone Rossi -- Sonata a due Violini col suo basso continuo per l'organo / Giovanni Battista Vitali -- Sonata da camera a tre, opus 4, no. 5 / Arcangelo Corelli -- Rosary Sonata X (The Crucifixion of Christ) / Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber -- Sonata for violin and violone or cembalo, opus 5, no. 1 / Arcangelo Corelli -- 18th century: vocal. Su le sponde del Tebro (cantatas, Arias 3 and 4 and recitative) / Alessandro Scarlatti -- Admeto. Act II, scenes 7 and 8 ; Act III, scene 6 / George Frideric Handel -- Hippolyte et Aricie (Act I, scene 2) / Jean-Philippe Rameau -- La serva padrona (intermezzo primo, excerpt) / Giovanni Battista Pergolesi -- Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78 (cantata for the 14th Sunday after Trinity) / Johann Sebastian Bach -- 18th century: instrumental. Pièces de clavecin, Premier livre (Premier ordre, excerpts) / François Couperin -- Prelude and Fugue in D minor, BWV 851-852 (from Das wohltemperirte Clavier I) / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Sonata in D minor, K. 120 (L. 215) ; Sonata in D major, K. 119 (L. 415) / Domenico Scarlatti -- Violin concerto in G minor, opus 8, no. 8, RV 332 (from Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione) / Antonio Vivaldi -- Musikalisches Opfer, BWV 1079. Canon 1. a cancrizans ; Canon 2. a 2 violini in unisono ; Canon 3. a 2 per Motum contrarium ; Canon 4. a 2 per Augmentationem, contrario Motu ; Canon perpetuus / Johann Sebastian Bach.
Abstract This volume is intended as a treasury of great music from the past and a guide to the formative millennium of Western musical culture. It begins with the monophononic chant of the Western church and concludes with the intricate tonal polyphony of Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel. The compositions have been chosen for their representative qualities as well as for their beauty. They compass the major genres of the European musical tradition as interpreted by its most imaginative composers and illustrate primary compositional techniques adopted in various epochs.
General noteIncludes commentaries for each work.
General noteIncludes index.
Bibliography noteDiscography: pages 602-609.
LCCN 86753093
ISBN0394329511

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