Vespro della Beata Vergine
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Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206, is a musical setting by Claudio Monteverdi of the evening vespers on Marian feasts, scored for soloists, choirs, and orchestra. It is an ambitious work in scope and
Title page of the "Bassus Generalis" for one of the partbooks in which the Vespers were published in 1610
The basilica of St. Barbara, the ducal palace church at Mantua
From the Magnificat, a page from the alto partbook (short score), the voice part left and continuo part right
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Magnificat
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The Magnificat is a canticle, also known as the Song of Mary or Canticle of Mary, and in the Byzantine Rite as the Ode of the Theotokos. Its Western name derives from the incipit of its Latin text. Th
Vespro della Beata Vergine
…concertato motets and a vocal sonata on the "Sancta Maria" litany, several differently scored stanzas of the hymn "Ave maris stella", and a choice of two Magnificats. A church performance would have included antiphons in Gregorian chant for the specific feast day. The composition demonstrates Monteverdi's ability…
Visitation, by Domenico Ghirlandaio (1491), depicts Mary visiting her elderly cousin Elizabeth.
Translations of the Magnificat into various languages at the Church of the Visitation in Ein Karem
The Visitation in the Book of Hours of the Duc de Berry; the Magnificat in Latin
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