Graham O'Reilly

'Allegri's Miserere' in the Sistine Chapel

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 Tenebræ 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 thanlooking 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 recreatingit 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. GRAHAM O'REILLY is founder andconductor of the French-based Ensemble William Byrd, which recorded the Miserere from a late Vatican manuscript in 2000.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 168mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 848g
• ISBN-13: 9781783274871
• ISBN-10: 1783274875
• Artikelnr.: 57366717

Autorenporträt

Graham O'Reilly

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Myth and reality Part One: The 16th and 17th centuries 1.
Context 2. Creation 3. Transformation Part Two: The 18th century 4. Show
business 5. 18th century sources 1 - Blainville and Mozart 6. 18th century
sources 2 - The Paris and Manchester manuscripts 7. 'Con suoi rifiorimente,
come si deve eseguire' - What the earliest ornamented manuscripts show Part
Three: The 19th century 8. The Papal Choir in the 19th century 1 - Giuseppe
Baini 9. 19th century sources 1 - British Library Add. MS 31525 and related
manuscripts 10. 19th century sources 2 - Alfieri's Il Salmo Miserere of
1840 11. The Papal Choir in the 19th century 2 - Domenico Mustafà 12. 19th
century sources 3 - The Vatican manuscript of Domenico Mustafà Part Four:
Performing the Miserere in the 20th century 13. The current 'popular'
version of the Allegri Miserere: the 'English Miserere' 14. Introduction to
the editions 15. Aspects of performance practice 1 - Performing pitch 16.
Aspects of performance practice 2 - Expression 17. Aspects of performance
practice 3 - Performing forces 18. Conclusion Part Five: Appendices,
editions and notes Bibliography