St. Matthew Passion : reconstructed from the Eton Choirbook with lyrics in Latin and English / Richard Davy ; edited by Ross W. Duffin.

Format:

Musical score

Author/Creator:

Davy, Richard, approximately 1465-1538, composer.

Contributor:

Duffin, Ross W., editor.

Series:

Collegium musicum (Yale University) ; 2nd series, v.17.

Recent researches in Music Online. 2577-4573.

Collegium musicum (Yale University) ; Second Series, volume 17

Recent researches in Music Online, 2577-4573

Standardized Title:

Passio Domini in ramis palmarum. English and Latin

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Passion music--Scores.

Passion music.

Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices, 4 parts), Unaccompanied--Scores.

Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices, 4 parts), Unaccompanied.

Genre:

Holy Week music.

Scores.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 score (xvii, 93 pages, 5 pages of plates)) : illustrations, facsimiles.

Place of Publication:

Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2019.

Language Note:

Latin words from contemporary Sarum missals; English words from William Tyndale's New Testament.

Staff notation.

Summary:

"The St. Matthew Passion by Richard Davy from the Eton Choirbook is the earliest surviving polyphonic setting of the passion by a known composer. Much of it is intended to be chanted to the Sarum recitation tone for the passion, but Davy sets polyphonically the synagoga--the sayings of the disciples, the priests, Pilate, and others--making a total of forty-two polyphonic movements. Unfortunately, its first two folios are missing, making it necessary to reconstruct the first eleven movements completely, and two of the four voices for the next twelve. Such reconstructions have been attempted before, but this edition brings together new analytic tools to aid in the reconstruction and, as an additional option for the presentation of the work, sets the entire passion to the early English translation of the gospel by William Tyndale, a student at Magdalen College Oxford only a few years after the composer's period of residence there." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. Historical background ; The need for a new edition ; The English version ; Performance practice ; Notes

Plates

St. Matthew Passion. Latin version ; English version

Critical report.

Notes:

For chorus (SATB) with baritone (Jesus) and tenor (Evangelist) soloists.

Chant from the Sarum tradition; polyphony by Richard Davy.

Includes introduction and critical report.

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource (A-R Editions, viewed March 8, 2019).

OCLC:

1090886606

Publisher Number:

Y2-017 A-R Editions, Inc.