Choirbook 4
| SHELF MARK | Basilica di San Marco, Libri musicali 4 |
| SHORT TITLE | [Francesco Cavalli]: 2 Hymns |
DESCRIPTION
| IDENTIFIER | DOI: 10.14277/unive/vmo/soundstmark/2017/choirbook4 |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | 16 sheets: 1 front flyleaf (added during restoration in 2015) 14 sheets with music 1 back flyleaf (added during restoration in 2015) In-plano. Maximum sheet size (mm): 586 (height) x 426 (width) Structure: Sheet – Original pagination in source (Content) Sheet 1r – unnumbered Sheet 1v – 1 (1st hymn) Sheet 2r – 2 Sheet 2v – 3 Sheet 3r – 4 Sheet 3v – 5 Sheet 4r – 6 Sheet 4v – 7 Sheet 5r – 8 Sheet 5v – 9 Sheet 6r – 10 Sheet 6v – 11 Sheet 7r – 12 Sheet 7v – 1 corrected 11 (2nd hymn) Sheet 8r – 2 corrected 12 Sheet 8v – 3 corrected 13 Sheet 9r – 4 corrected 14 Sheet 9v – 5 corrected 15 Sheet 10r – 6 corrected 16 Sheet 10v – 7 corrected 17 Sheet 11r – 8 corrected 18 Sheet 11v – 9 corrected 19 Sheet 12r – 10 corrected 20 Sheet 12v – 11 corrected 21 Sheet 13r – 12 corrected 22 Sheet 13v – staves only Sheet 14r – staves only Sheet 14v – staves only |
| BINDING | Before restoration (2015), the manuscript was unbound. It is now bound in paperboard with two endpapers and two modern flyleaves. The presence of many stitch holes and two fragments of raised bands in hemp are signs that the manuscript had a hard cover, and perhaps other compositions. Precisely when Choir Book 4 was removed from its parent volume cannot be determined, though it may reasonably be assumed that this occurred in conjunction with or after the reform of musical ceremonial introduced under Baldassare Galuppi in 1766. |
| MATERIAL |
Paper: 2 types Type 1 (sheets 1–7, 12–14) Chain line width (mm): 29 Watermark 1a (centre of half-sheet): Crescents Watermark 1b (centre of half-sheet): Letter ‘V’ Watermark 1c (corner of sheet): Trefoil with letters ‘b’ ‘V’ Type 2 (sheets 8–11) Chain line width (mm): 33 Watermark 2 (centre of half-sheet): Trefoil with letters ‘P’ ‘B’ and, underneath, ‘N’ |
| DATING | 1672 [fol. [1r] :] ‘MDCLXXII’ |
| COPYIST(S) | de' Rossi, Lorenzo (De Rubeis, Laurentius) |
| INVENTORY | Marchio Angeli (1720) no. 43 |
| NOTES | Label (fol. [1r]), probably by Matteo Tosi: ‘4 / MVCLXXII [sic] / R / (Due Inni) / Molto probabilmente del Rovetta’. As indicated on the recto of the first sheet, the manuscript was compiled in 1672 by Lorenzo (de’) Rossi, copyist at St Mark’s. On 28 April 1675, the Procuratoria di San Marco records a payment to Rossi for having copied several volumes, among them ‘two hymns for St John the Baptist and the Apparition of St Mark’. I-Vas, Procuratori de supra, Chiesa, reg. 148, fol. 3v: ‘Adi 28. Aprile 1675; Hanno in appresso gli soprascritti gl’Ill[ustrissi]mi, et Ecc[ellentissi]mi Sig[no]ri Proc[urato]ri terminato, che de danari della Cassa della Chiesa sian pagati a P. Lorenzo Rossi ducati doicento settantadue grossi sette contenuti nelle polizze del Maestro di Capella per saldo delle operazioni per l’addietro fatte nel scriver in notte quadrate la Messa a cinque; due Hinni di San Gio[vanni] Battista, et dell’Apparizion di San Marco; altra Messa a quattro; due Mottetti dell’Invenzion della Croce, et di San Nicolò; il Magnificat a quatro, et Messa da Morto a otto composto il tutto dal detto Maestro per servizio della medesima, compreso ducati sei grossi cinque di carta, e ligature di queste, come in esse polizze, a’ quali s’abbino relazione, et sic [est].’ The ‘R’ visible on the recto of the first sheet indicates the name of the copyist Lorenzo de’ Rossi. |
| LITERATURE | Caffi: San Marco Collarile: Ad uso della Cappella Ducale Collarile: Suono dell’eterno Passadore, Rossi: San Marco, no. 1933 |
CONTENT
Choirbook 4_01
| TITLE IN SOURCE | [fol. [1v] :] ‘In Nativitate S[ancti] Io[annis] Bapt[istae]’ |
| INCIPIT | Ut queant laxis resonare fibris |
| COMPOSER | Anonymous Cavalli, Francesco Other attributions: Furlanetto, Bonaventura Rovetta, Antonio Rovetta, Giovanni |
| DESCRIPTION | Ut queant laxis resonare fibris (fols 1v-3r) Ille promissi dubius superni (fols 3v-5r) Sit decus Patri genitaeque proli (fols 5v-7r) |
| SCORING | 4 vocal parts: Cantus, Altus, Tenor, Bassus |
| CLEFS | C1, C3, C4, F4 |
| LITURGICAL SOURCE | Hymn Ut queant laxis, strophes 1, 3 and 5 AH vol. 50, no. 96 |
| LITURGICAL FEAST | Second Vespers, Nativity of St John the Baptist (24 June) |
| LITURGICAL GENRE | Hymn |
| LITURGICAL SOURCE | Hymn Ut queant laxis, strophes 1, 3 and 5 AH vol. 50, no. 96 |
| TEXT | Strophe 1 Ut queant laxis resonare fibris, Mira gestorum famuli tuorum, Solve polluti labii reatum, Sancte Ioannes. Strophe 3 Ille promissi dubius superni, Perdidit promptae modulos loquelae: Sed reformasti genitus peremptae, Organa vocis. Strophe 5 Sit decus Patri genitaeque proli Et tibi compar utriusque virtus Spiritus semper, Deus unus omni temporis aevo. |
| TRANSCRIPTION |
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| OTHER SOURCES | I-Vnm, It. IV 1136 (=10965) |
| NOTES | For the attribution to Francesco Cavalli, see Collarile: Ad uso della Cappella Ducale. Previously the hymn was attributed to Bonaventura Furlanetto (Passadore, Rossi: San Marco, no. 1933), Giovanni Rovetta (Caffi: San Marco, p. 447; and label on source, fol. [1r]) and Antonio Rovetta (I-Vnm, Cod. It. IV 1136 [=10965]). The text follows the version of the hymn reformed by Urban VIII (BR 1632, p. 895). Strophe 5 is absent from the hymn as given in PD, p. 124. |
| LITERATURE | Caffi: San Marco Collarile: Ad uso della Cappella Ducale Collarile: Suono dell’eterno Moore: Ceremoniale Moore: Vespers at St Mark's Passadore, Rossi: San Marco, no. 1933 |
Choirbook 4_02
| TITLE IN SOURCE | [fol. [7v] :] ‘In Apparitione Sancti Marci.’ |
| INCIPIT | Quo sanctum Marcum chorus angelorum |
| COMPOSER | Anonymous Cavalli, Francesco Other attributions: Rovetta, Antonio Rovetta, Giovanni |
| DESCRIPTION | Quo sanctum Marcum chorus angelorum (fols 7v‒9r) Sacerdotali praeditum honore (fols 9v‒11r) Ut a devotis fratribus exactus (fols 11v‒13r) |
| SCORING | 4 parts: Cantus, Altus, Tenor, Bassus |
| CLEFS | G2, C2, C3, F3 |
| LITURGICAL SOURCE | Hymn Hodie festum pie celebremus, strophes 2, 4 and 6 AH vol. 22, no. 294 |
| LITURGICAL FEAST | Vespers, Apparition of St Mark |
| LITURGICAL GENRE | Hymn |
| LITURGICAL SOURCE | Hymn Hodie festum pie celebremus, strophes 2, 4 and 6 AH vol. 22, no. 294 |
| TEXT | Strophe 2 Quo sanctum Marcum chorus angelorum Vehens ad gaudia [AH: ‘ad summa gaudia’] caelorum Associavit coetibus sanctorum sede perenni [source: ‘perhempni’]. Strophe 4 Sacerdotali praeditum honore Typicum legis veteris ex more Et sacrae fultum pangine [AH: ‘paginae’] decore Caelitus dato. Strophe 6 Ut a devotis fratribus exactus Evangelista quoque Christi factus Verba ipsius pariter et actus Scriberet recte. |
| TRANSCRIPTION |
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| OTHER SOURCES | I-Vnm, It. IV 1136 (=10965) |
| NOTES | For the attribution to Francesco Cavalli, see Collarile: Ad uso della Cappella Ducale. Previous attributions of this hymn were to Giovanni Rovetta (Caffi: San Marco, p. 447; and label on source, fol. [1r]) and Antonio Rovetta (I-Vnm, Cod. It. IV 1136 [=10965]). It is listed as anonymous in Passadore, Rossi: San Marco, no. 1933. The text presents several variants with respect to AH. |
| LITERATURE | Caffi: San Marco Collarile: Ad uso della Cappella Ducale Collarile: Suono dell’eterno Moore: Ceremoniale Moore: Vespers at St Mark's Passadore, Rossi: San Marco |
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