Jeffrey Kurtzman
Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Music, Faculty Member
- Jeffrey Kurtzman is Professor of Music at Washington University in St. Louis. A specialist in 16th and 17th-century ... moreJeffrey Kurtzman is Professor of Music at Washington University in St. Louis. A specialist in 16th and 17th-century Italian music, he has published two books on the Monteverdi Vespers, a critical/performing edition of the Vespers as well as two Monteverdi masses, other books and articles on the music of Claudio Monteverdi and other Italian music from the sixteenth and seventeenth-centuries and a 10-volume edition of Italian Vespers and Compline Music of the same period. He was the founding president of the international ‘Society for Seventeenth-Century Music,’ and serves on the Editorial Boards of the Society’s Journal and Web Library of Seventeenth-Century Music. Prof. Kurtzman is the General Editor of the Opera Omnia of Alessandro Grandi, published by the American Institute of Musicology, and of an anthology of Italian Instrumental music published by the Web Library of Seventeenth-Century Music.edit
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Vesper and Compline Music for One Principal Voice. Edited with an introduction by Jeffrey Kurtzman. (Seventeenth-Century Italian Sacred Music, 11.) New York: Garland Publishing, 1995. [Gen. introd., p. vii-viii; editorial methods, p.... more
Vesper and Compline Music for One Principal Voice. Edited with an introduction by Jeffrey Kurtzman. (Seventeenth-Century Italian Sacred Music, 11.) New York: Garland Publishing, 1995. [Gen. introd., p. vii-viii; editorial methods, p. ix-xi; introd. to the Vesper and Compline vols., sources and commentary, crit. notes, p. xiii-xxvii; scores, p. 1-291. Cloth; acid-free paper. ISBN 0-8153-2165-1. $160.] Includes works by Adriano Banchieri, Giovanni Battista Bassani, Stefano Bernardi, Severo Bonini, Maurizio Cazzati, Ottavio Durante, Isabella Leonarda, Francesco Lucio, Tarquinio Merula, Francesco Petrobelli, Sisto Reina, Giovanni Antonio Rigatti, Giovanni Rovetta, Orazio Tarditi, Lodovico Viadana, and Giovanni Battista Vitali. Vesper and Compline Music for Two Principal Voices. Edited with an introduction by Jeffrey Kurtzman. (Seventeenth-Century Italian Sacred Music, 12.) New York: Garland Publishing, 1997. [Gen. introd., p. vii- viii; editorial methods, p. ix-xi; introd. to the Vesper and Compline vols., sources and commentary, crit. notes, p. xiii-xxxiii; scores, p. 1-260. Cloth; acid-free paper. ISBN 0-8153-2359-X. $160.] Includes works by Paolo Agostini, Giovanni Francesco Anerio, Adriano Banchieri, Giovanni Battista Bassani, Giovanni Battista Biondi, Francesco Cavalli, Maurizio Cazzati, Giacomo Finetti, Francesco Petrobelli, Sisto Reina, Giovanni Antonio Rigatti, Giovanni Rovetta, and Orazio Tarditi. Vesper and Compline Music for Three Principal Voices. Edited with an introduction by Jeffrey Kurtzman. (Seventeenth-Century Italian Sacred Music, 13.) New York: Garland Publishing, 1998. [Gen. introd., p. vii-viii; editorial methods, p. ix-xi; introd. to the Vesper and Compline vols., sources and commentary, crit. notes, p. xiii-xxxii; scores, p. 1-312. Cloth; acid-free paper. ISBN 0-8153-2360-3. $140.] Includes works by Agostino Agazzari, Paolo Agostini, Giovanni Francesco Anerio, Francesco Cavalli, Giovanni Paolo Colonna, Leandro Gallerano, Alessandro Grandi, Giovanni Legrenzi, Isabella Leonarda, Tarquinio Merula, Pietro Pace, Giovanni Antonio Rigatti, and Orazio Tarditi. Vesper and Compline Music for Four Principal Voices. Edited with an introduction by Jeffrey Kurtzman. (Seventeenth-Century Italian Sacred Music, 14.) New York: Garland Publishing, 1998. [Gen. introd., p. vii-viii; editorial methods, p. ix-xi; introd. to the Vesper and Compline vols., sources and commentary, crit. notes, p. xiii-xxvii; scores, p. 1-247. Cloth; acid-free paper. ISBN 0-8153-2420-0. $130.] Includes works by Agostino Agazzari, Giovanni Francesco Anerio, Giovanni Battista Biondi, Maurizio Cazzati, Antonio Cifra, Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Bonifazio Graziani, Giovanni Legrenzi, Isabella Leonarda, Tarquinio Merula, and Lodovico Viadana. Vesper and Compline Music for Five Principal Voices, Part I-II. Edited with an introduction by Jeffrey Kurtzman. (Seventeenth-Century Italian Sacred Music, 15-16.) New York: Garland Publishing, 1999-2000. [Pt. I. Gen. introd., p. vii-viii; editorial methods, p. ix-xi; introd. to the Vesper and Compline vols., sources and commentary, crit. notes, p. xiii-xxvi; scores, p. 1-251. Cloth; acid-free paper. ISBN 0-8153-2421-9. $155. Pt. II. Gen. introd., p. vii-viii; editorial methods, p. ix-xi; introd. to the Vesper and Compline vols., sources and commentary, crit. notes, p. xiii-xxv; scores, p. 1-268. Cloth; acid-free paper. ISBN 0-8153-2422-7. $140.] Includes works by Giovanni Battista Bassani, Stefano Bernardi, Francesco Cavalli, Giovanni Paolo Colonna, Amadio Freddi, Leandro Gallerano, Bonifazio Graziani, Giovanni Legrenzi, Tarquinio Merula, Giovanni Rovetta, Lodovico Viadana, and Giovanni Battista Vitali. Vesper and Compline Music for Six and Seven Principal Voices, Part One-Two. Edited with an introduction by Jeffrey Kurtzman. (Seventeenth-Century Italian Sacred Music, 17.) New York: Garland Publishing, c2001. [Pt. 1. Gen. introd., p. vii-viii; editorial methods, p. …
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This volume is part of a series of 25 full-score volumes of 17th-century Italian sacred music, a repertoire that has largely been unavailable for study or performance. It includes a comprehensive historical and biographical introduction,... more
This volume is part of a series of 25 full-score volumes of 17th-century Italian sacred music, a repertoire that has largely been unavailable for study or performance. It includes a comprehensive historical and biographical introduction, focuses on composers significant in their own time, and offers modern notation for contemporary performers.
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Covering all facets of musical life in sixteenth-century Venice, the Companion addresses the city’s institutions (churches, confraternities, and academies), public and private occasions of music making, musicians and instrument makers,... more
Covering all facets of musical life in sixteenth-century Venice, the Companion addresses the city’s institutions (churches, confraternities, and academies), public and private occasions of music making, musicians and instrument makers, and the rich variety of musical genres.
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... holy blood was once again exposed as at First Vespers, this time in an ebony chest from the church of Santa Barbara encrusted with ... Monteverdi: Studi e prospettive, Atti del Convegno (Mantua, 2124 ottobre 1993), ed. P. Besutti, TM... more
... holy blood was once again exposed as at First Vespers, this time in an ebony chest from the church of Santa Barbara encrusted with ... Monteverdi: Studi e prospettive, Atti del Convegno (Mantua, 2124 ottobre 1993), ed. P. Besutti, TM Gialdroni and R. Baroncini (Florence, 1998 ...
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Chapter 20 The psychic disintegration of a demi-god: conscious and unconscious in Striggio and Monteverdi's L'Orfeo Jeffrey Kurtzman... more
Chapter 20 The psychic disintegration of a demi-god: conscious and unconscious in Striggio and Monteverdi's L'Orfeo Jeffrey Kurtzman 'Consciousness' is a word used casually in everyday parlance, suggesting that, in the Western world at least, we have an unproblematic ...
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This edition is designed to meet the needs of both the scholar and the performer. It contains the complete music of all fourteen compositions as in Monteverdi's original print, plus the psalm 'Lauda Jerusalem' and the two... more
This edition is designed to meet the needs of both the scholar and the performer. It contains the complete music of all fourteen compositions as in Monteverdi's original print, plus the psalm 'Lauda Jerusalem' and the two Magnificats in a choice of pitches. Also provided are a continuo realization, notes on performance, Gregorian antiphons for the feasts of the Virgin, and examples of typical early seventeenth-century embellishments. Complete performing material is available on hire, and a Critical Commentary is available for sale from the OUP Hire Library.
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Contents: Introduction Bibliography Part 1 Aesthetic and Psychological Studies: Monteverdi and early Baroque aesthetics: the view from Foucault A taxonomic and affective analysis of Monteverdi's Hor che'l ciel e la terra A Jungian... more
Contents: Introduction Bibliography Part 1 Aesthetic and Psychological Studies: Monteverdi and early Baroque aesthetics: the view from Foucault A taxonomic and affective analysis of Monteverdi's Hor che'l ciel e la terra A Jungian perspective on Monteverdi's late madrigals Intimations of chaos in Monteverdi' L'Orfeo The psychic disintegration of a demi-god: conscious and unconscious in Striggio and Monteverdi's L'Orfeo. Part 2 Sacred Music Studies: What makes Claudio divine? Criteria for analysis of Monteverdi's large-scale concertato style The Mantuan sacred music 'Laetatus sum' (1610) A Monteverdi Vespers in 1611 (with Licia Mari) Monteverdi's Mass of Thanksgiving: da capo Monteverdi's missing sacred music: evidence and conjectures. Part 3 Critical Editions: Collected works of Claudio Monteverdi: the Malipiero and Cremona editions Indexes.
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This volume is part of a series of 25 full-score volumes of 17th-century Italian sacred music, a repertoire that has largely been unavailable for study or performance. It includes a comprehensive historical and biographical introduction,... more
This volume is part of a series of 25 full-score volumes of 17th-century Italian sacred music, a repertoire that has largely been unavailable for study or performance. It includes a comprehensive historical and biographical introduction, focusing on composers significant in their own time, and offers modern notation for contemporary performers. It includes "The Monteverdi Vespers of 1610: Music Context and Performance" and "Vesper and Compline Music Volumess 11-16".
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... suitable for the feast of any virgin saint2 Only four of Monte-verdi's sacn concentus and the hymn are specific to Mary Graham Dixon, in an ... Its point of departure is a brief account in the 1624 travel diary of the Dutchman... more
... suitable for the feast of any virgin saint2 Only four of Monte-verdi's sacn concentus and the hymn are specific to Mary Graham Dixon, in an ... Its point of departure is a brief account in the 1624 travel diary of the Dutchman Constan-tijn Huygens of a Vesper service he attended in ...