Music for the Pauline Chapel of Santa Maria Maggiore / Alessandro Melani ; edited by Luca Della Libera.

Format:

• Musical score

Author/Creator:

• Melani, Alessandro, 1639-1703, composer.

Contributor:

• Della Libera, Luca, editor.

Series:

• Collegium musicum (Yale University) ; 2nd series, volume 22.
• Recent researches in Music Online. 2577-4573.
• Collegium musicum (Yale University) ; second series: volume 22
• Recent researches in Music Online, 2577-4573

Standardized Title:

• Vocal music. Selections

Language:

• English
• Latin

Subjects (All):

• Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Songs and music.
• Sacred vocal ensemble with organ--Scores.
• Litanies (Music)--Scores.
• Antiphons (Music)--Scores.

Genre:

• Litanies (Music)
• Antiphons (Music)
• Scores.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 score (xvi, 208 pages, 2 pages of plates)) : facsimiles.

Place of Publication:

Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2017.

Language Note:

• Latin words, also printed as texts with English translations on pages xv-xvi.
• Staff notation.

Summary:

"The Pauline Chapel in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore is one of the most complex and significant ecclesiastical buildings in Counter-Reformation Rome ... The statutes of this Chapel were approved in 1615, committing the "Salve" services (always including the antiphon Salve Regina, which expresses the Marian concepts embodied by the Pauline Chapel) to twelve musicians: ten singers, one organist, and the chapel master. They sang litanies, antiphons, and the Compline service every Saturday night, at all feasts, and on the eves of Marian feasts. The earliest "Salve" music that has been preserved is that composed by Alessandro Melani (1639-1703), who directed the Pauline Chapel musicians from 1667 until his death. Written for two choirs and sung with one voice assigned to each part, this is a systematic repertoire by a single composer for the most important Marian chapel of the Roman Counter-Reformation." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

• Litanie per la Beata Vergine : "Le Pasquine" [SSATB, SATB, organ]
• Litanie per la Beata Vergine [SSATB, SATB, organ]
• Litanie per la Beata Vergine : "Le Ricche" [SSATB, SATB, organ]
• Litanie per la Beata Vergine [SSATB, organ]
• Salve Regina [SSATB, SATB, organ]
• Salve Regina [S solo, SATB, organ]
• Alma Redemptoris Mater [S solo, SATB, organ]
• Ave Regina caelorum [S solo, SSATB, organ]
• Regina caeli [SSATB, SATB, organ].

Notes:

• Marian litanies and antiphons; for solo voices (grouped in choirs, the soprano parts doubled (1st-3rd, 5th, and 9th works)) and organ; figured bass unrealized.
• Edited principally from holograph scores in the Diözesanbibliothek, Santini-Sammlung, Münster (shelfmarks Sant. Hs. 2658 and 2655); and partbooks in the archive of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome (shelfmarks 74 and 94).
• Includes introduction and critical report.
• Includes bibliographical references.
• Online resource (A-R Editions, viewed November 9, 2018).

Contains:

• Container of: Melani, Alessandro, 1639-1703. Litanie per la Beata Vergine.
• Container of: Melani, Alessandro, 1639-1703. Salve regina.
• Container of: Melani, Alessandro, 1639-1703. Alma Redemptoris Mater.
• Container of: Melani, Alessandro, 1639-1703. Ave Regina caelorum.
• Container of: Melani, Alessandro, 1639-1703. Regina caeli.

OCLC:

1079289885

Publisher Number:

Y2-022 A-R Editions, Inc.