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Sacred music, Part 1, Motets and hymns / Antoine Boesset ; edited by Peter Bennett.
- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Boesset, Anthoyne, composer.
- Series:
- Recent researches in the music of the Baroque Era ; 164.
- Recent researches in Music Online. 2577-4573.
- Recent researches in the music of the Baroque Era ; 164
- Recent researches in Music Online, 2577-4573
- Standardized Title:
- Vocal music. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices, 4 parts) with continuo--Scores.
- Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices, 4 parts) with continuo.
- Motets--Scores.
- Motets.
- Hymns, Latin--Scores.
- Hymns, Latin.
- Genre:
- Motets.
- Scores.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 score (xxxi, 223 pages, 4 pages of plates)) : facsimiles.
- Place of Publication:
- Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2019.
- Language Note:
- Latin words, also printed as texts with English translations.
- Staff notation.
- Summary:
- "Antoine Boesset (1586-1643), surintendant de la musique de la chambre to Louis XIII, has long been known as one of the most important composers active in early seventeenth-century France, but until recently he was believed to have produced only secular airs de cour. This edition presents for the first time Boesset's newly identified sacred works, a repertory of some seventy compositions for the nuns of the Royal Abbey of Montmartre, Paris. Scored for multiple high voices, bass, and basse continue, Boesset's works include three complete mass ordinary settings (through-composed and alternatim), Te Deums and Magnificats (again both through-composed and alternatim), psalms, and a number motets for important feasts and ceremonies at Montmartre. Montmartre was also one of the first religious houses to adopt so-called "plain chant musical," a type of newly composed or modified chant. Several works of the edition make particular use of this kind of chant, most notably the alternatim hymn settings, which use unusual metered versions of the newly composed hymn chants in alternation with the polyphony. Boesset's compositions for Montmartre represent by far the largest single repertory of sacred music from the reign of Louis XIII, and, while not showing the influence of the newest Italian practices, nevertheless anticipate several of the musical techniques previously associated with Henri Dumont, in particular the use of the basse continue. These works thus fill a significant gap in our understanding of musical developments in seventeenth-century France and demonstrate that sacred music of the highest quality emerged during a period that scholars have long dismissed as being of little interest." -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Motets: Alma redemptoris Mater
- Anna mater Matris
- Ave Maria (1)
- Ave Maria (2)
- Ave per cor suavissimum Jesu
- Ave Regina caelorum
- Ave salus mundi
- Ave virginum gemma Catharina
- Benedicimus te
- Domine salvum fac regem (1)
- Domine salvum fac regem (2)
- Domine salvum fac regem (3)
- Domine salvum fac regem (4)
- Duo seraphim
- Duo seraphim (alternative opening)
- Ecce panis Angelorum
- Fons aquae vivae
- Hic est beatissimus
- O athletum invictissimum
- O crux ave
- O Doctor optime
- O Pastor aeterne
- O quam suavis
- O sacrum convivium
- Popule meus
- Pretiosus Domini Dionysius
- Regina caeli (1)
- Regina caeli (2)
- Regina caeli (3)
- Regnum mundi
- Salve Regina (1)
- Salve Regina (2)
- Salve Regina (3)
- Sancta Maria
- Tu es Petrus
- Tu es vas electionis
- Veni Sancte Spiritus
- Vir Domini Benedictus.
- Hymns: Ad caenam Agni (alternatim)
- Alleluja ; O filii et filiae
- Aurea luce (alternatim)
- Ave maris stella (alternatim)
- Ave mater pia (alternatim)
- Christe redemptor omnium, Conserva (alternatim)
- Christe redemptor omnium, Ex Patre
- Claris conjubila (alternatim)
- Dionysii martyris (alternatim)
- Iste Confessor (alternatim)
- Jesu, nostra redemptio (alternatim)
- O gloriosae virgines
- O salutaris hostia
- Pange lingua ... Corporis
- Pange lingua ... Certaminis
- Quam pulchra es
- Quam pulchra es (alternative refrain)
- Veni Creator Spiritus (alternatim).
- Notes:
- For 4-5 mixed voices and continuo (organ); continuo unrealized.
- Edited from copyist's manuscript in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département de la musique (Rés. Vma ms. 571).
- Includes introduction and critical report.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Online resource (A-R Editions, viewed March 22, 2019).
- OCLC:
- 1090909967
- Publisher Number:
- B164 A-R Editions, Inc.
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