To the best of my knowledge, this is the first book (discounting a
handful of academic theses) to have been written specifically on the
subject of Vivaldi’s sacred vacal music.
To be sure, discussions of it in modern Vivaldian literature are very
numerous and sometimes quite extended. But these all too often have a
perfunctory, provisional feel, as if they have been included only far
the sake of completeness in surveys either of the composer’s music as a
whole or of his writing for the voice.
Some are in reality little better than a Konzertführer for a small
number of selected works. None provides enough contextual information
to enable us to situate Vivaldi’s sacred vocal music adequately in its
time and place.

INDICE

Preface

I Rediscovery and Revaluation

II Tu es sacerdos: Vivaldi the Priest

III Music and the Church

IV The Venetian Scene

V The Works of the Anhang
La Chiesa

VI Vivaldi’s Involvement with Sacred Music

VII The Sources

VIII Vivaldi’s Sacred Music: An Overview

IX The Works for Solo Voice
(a) Hymns
(b) Antiphons
(c) Psalms
(d) Motets
(e) Introduzioni

X The Works for Choir alone

XI The Concertato Works
(a) Sections of the Mass
(b) Psalms

XII Writing for Two Cori

XIII The Oratorio Juditha triumphans

XIV Borrowings and Reworkings in Vivaldi’s Sacred Music

XV Vivaldi’s Place in the History of Sacred Music

XVI Restoration and Revival
A-A Catalogue of Vivaldi’s Sacred Vocal Music
B-Index to Musical Works Cited
C-Quotations

Bibliography

Index

List of Plates

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