Messa a quattro voci da Cappella (1650) (Claudio Monteverdi)

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  • (Posted 2015-06-15)  CPDL #35766:  Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif
Editor: Peter Rottländer (submitted 2015-06-15).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 146 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Original key signature


Complete work

  • (Posted 2009-10-09)  CPDL #20310:  Icon_pdf.gif
Editor: Alessandro Magagnin (submitted 2008-07-07).   Score information: A4, 37 pages, 1.46 MB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes:
Editor: Márton Jakobey (submitted 2006-08-09).   Score information: A4, 35 pages, 259 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: individual movements also available. Rather high set. More comfortable a whole step down.
Transposed version: Icon_pdf.gif
Edition notes: Comment by Adam Cole: Actually, as with Monteverdi's 6vv Missa "in illo tempore" and his Vespers of 1610, the apparent high tessituras herein are due to chiavette (high clefs), a notational convention which modern scholarship suggests was sung at a downward transposition of a fourth. I've taken the liberty of posting a version in this key, with the alto line moved to octavo clef for readability. The bottom line now assumes a real bass tessitura (to bottom F), and the tenors and sopranos can lay aside the helium masks. As always, it is modern altos who suffer most with this approach--there are now a number of low E's and F's--but they are welcome to help the soprano/mezzos with their smattering of low A's!

Individual movements

Kyrie

  • (Posted 2015-06-15)  CPDL #35764:  Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif
Editor: Peter Rottländer (submitted 2015-06-15).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 146 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Key signature as printed
  • (Posted 2015-06-15)  CPDL #35765:  Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif
Editor: Peter Rottländer (submitted 2015-06-15).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 146 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Transposed fourth down
Editor: Márton Jakobey (submitted 2006-07-31).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 61 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Gloria

Editor: Márton Jakobey (submitted 2006-08-07).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 80 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Credo

Editor: Márton Jakobey (submitted 2006-08-07).   Score information: A4, 10 pages, 95 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Sanctus

Editor: Márton Jakobey (submitted 2006-08-08).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 41 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Benedictus

Editor: Márton Jakobey (submitted 2006-08-08).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 34 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Agnus Dei

Editor: Márton Jakobey (submitted 2006-08-09).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 45 kB   Copyright: CPDL

General Information

Title: Messa a quattro voci da Cappella (1650)
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: SacredMass

Language: Latin
Instruments: with basso continuo, or a cappella
Published: Messa a quattro voci, et salmi, concertati, Venice, 1650

Description: not to be confused with another mass for four voices published in 1641 in the Selva morale e spirituale.

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Original text and translations

For information, refer to the Mass page. For texts and translations, see the individual pages:

KyrieGloriaCredoSanctus & BenedictusAgnus Dei