Vespro della Beata Vergine (Claudio Monteverdi)

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Complete work

  • CPDL #20567:  Network.png
Editor: John Kilpatrick (submitted 2009-11-30).   Score information: A4, 138 pages, 1.48 MB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Complete performing edition including 7-part Magnificat but excluding 6-part alternative. Edition based on the 1610 part-books but in modern clefs and notation; barring by the editor, not taken from other editions. Continuo realization included (Monteverdi's bass plus mainly chordal right-hand; continuo requires organ; optional harpsichord suggestions given in short-score; some bassus generalis passages are also given to cello 1 or 2 or to trombone 3). Instrumental parts included for all the psalms. Lauda & Magnificat transposed down a 4th from apparent pitch. Opening intonation included. No antiphons included.
Available scores & parts: Vocal Score (140 pages including covers), full Score in two parts (nos. 1-10, 144 pages; nos. 11-13, 60 pages), parts for 12 instruments (11 to 16 pages per part), short score for continuo use (100 pages including covers). Words & translation also available for inclusion in vocal scores or programmes (4 pages, reducible to A5).

Individual movements

1. Deus in adjutorium/Domine ad adjuvandum (intonation & response); SSATTB Opening Versicle and Response at Vespers, followed by the minor doxology Gloria Patri, with the orchestral accompaniment consisting of the Toccata from Monteverdi's first opera, L'Orfeo. Instruments: 2 cornetti, 3 trombones, 2 violins da brazzo, 4 viuola da brazzo, contrabasso da gamba, basso continuo

Full scores
  • (Posted 2006-03-12)  CPDL #11219:  Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif
Editor: Philip Legge (submitted 2006-03-12).   Score information: A4, 14 pages, 271 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: Full score; vocal score, and parts also available.
Editor: Steven Langley Guy (submitted 2003-10-24).   Score information: A4 landscape, 5 pages, 80 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes:
Vocal scores
  • (Posted 2006-03-12)  CPDL #11222:  Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif
Editor: Philip Legge (submitted 2006-03-12).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 68 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: Vocal score, with bassus generalis part; full score, and parts also available. Revised 28 May 2006 to remove two unneeded cautionary sharps and to reduce file size.
Editor: Unknown (submitted 2005-08-30).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 36 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: Voice parts only.
Orchestral parts
  • (Posted 2006-03-12)  CPDL #11229:  Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif
Editor: Philip Legge (submitted 2006-03-12).   Score information: A4, 34 pages, 525 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: Parts; full score, and vocal score also available. Revised 28 May 2006 to include parts for alternate instruments (different transpositions or clefs).

2. Dixit Dominus (psalm 109/110); SSATTB Instruments colla voce, basso continuo

Editor: Sabine Cassola (submitted 2004-11-12).   Score information: A4, 16 pages, 268 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes:
  • CPDL #07766:  Icon_pdf.gif 
Editor: Jorge Luis Gaete Calderon (submitted 2004-08-17).   'Score information: A4, 16 pages, 444 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes:

3. Nigra sum (motet); tenor solo, Basso continuo

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Editor: Jorge Luis Gaete Calderon (submitted 2004-08-17).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 128 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes:

4. Laudate pueri a 8 (psalm 112/113); SSAATTBB, b. c.

Editor: Claude Tallet (submitted 2007-09-26).   Score information: A4, 14 pages, 271 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: scored for SSAATTBB.
Editor: Sabine Cassola (submitted 2007-05-09).   Score information: Letter, 14 pages, 245 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: scored for SATTTTBBB.

5. Pulchra es (motet): soprano duet, b. c.

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Editor: Jorge Luis Gaete Calderon (submitted 2004-08-17).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 168 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes:

6. Lætatus sum (psalm 121/122); SSATTB, b. c.

Editor: Claude Tallet (submitted 2007-09-26).   Score information: A4, 16 pages, 279 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes:

7. Duo Seraphim clamabant à 3 (motet); tenor duet, tenor trio, b. c.

  1. Nisi Dominus (psalm 126/127); SATTB-SATTB
  2. Audi cœlum (motet); tenor duet, SSATTB
  3. Lauda Jerusalem Dominum (psalm 147); SAB-T-SAB
  4. Sonata sopra Sancta Maria ora pro nobis (instrumental + soprano); soprano semi-chorus
  5. Ave maris stella (hymn); soli & SATB-SATB
  6. Magnificat a 7; multi-section with various soli & SSATTBB [ Magnificat a 6: SSATTB ]

General Information

Title: Vespro della Beata Vergine (Vespers of 1610)
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Number of voices: 8vv   Voicing: SSAATTBB

Genre: SacredMotetVespers

Language: Latin
Instruments: Mixed ensemble

cornetts 1 & 2 (or D trumpets) • cornett 3 (or B flat cornet/trumpet) • trombones 1 & 2 • trombone 3 (Bass in F; or bass in G if low C played in falsett) • violins 1 & 2 • violas 1 & 2 • cellos 1 & 2 • organ and optionally other continuo • recorders 1 & 2 (short passages ideally played by other instrumentalists or singers)

Published: Messa e Vespro della Beata Vergine, 1610

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Original text and translations

  1. Original text and translations may be found at Deus in adjutorium.
  2. Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 110.
  3. Original text and translations may be found at Nigra sum sed formosa.
  4. Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 113.
  5. Original text and translations may be found at Pulchra es.