Salmi Passaggiati per Tutte le Voci nella Maniera che si Cantano in Roma sopra i Falsi Bordoni di tutti i Tuoni Ecclesiastici da cantarsi ne i Vespri della Domenica e delli giorni festivi di tutto l'anno con alcun Versi di Miserere' sopra il Falso Bordone' del Dentice' Composta da Francesco Severi Perugino Cantore nella Capp. di N.S. Papa Paolo V. Libro Primo ... con licenza de Superiori & con Privilo
- Roma: Nicolò Bordoni, 1615
Roma: Nicolò Bordoni, 1615. Oblong octavo. Contemporary limp ivory vellum with blindstamped edges and spine gilt, contemporary manuscript note to upper. 1f. (recto title, verso dedication), 1f. ("Ai Lettori"), 75 (music), [i] ("Tavola") pp.
Engraved throughout. First two leaves with text within triple-ruled borders. With decorative publisher's device to title and fine decorative devices throughout.
Contains:
Dixit Dominus Primo tuono, p. 1
Confitebor tibi Domine Secondo tuono, p. 8
Beatus vir Terzo tuono, p. 15
Laudate pueri Quarto tuono, p. 22
Laudate Dominum omnes gentes Quinto tuono, p. 29
Magnificat Sesto tuono, p. 33
Nisi Dominus Settimo tuono, p. 41
In conuertendo ottavo tuono, p. 47
In exitu Misto tuono, p. 54
Miserere mei Deus, p. 61
Contemporary manuscript annotations to front free endpaper "... Libro di Canto figurato 1660" and rear endpapers.
Binding worn, soiled, and stained, with small holes to outer corner of upper; gilt faded; endpapers worn and stained with minor loss, free front endpaper with small circular dampstain and resulting hole to lower blank margin. Slightly worn and soiled; some margins slightly browned and foxed; light staining to lower portion of title and following several leaves, not affecting legibility. Margins very slightly trimmed, occasionally within platemark and just touching part identification or page numbers to upper margins in several instances. First Edition. BUC p. 941. Gaspari II, p. 311. Lesure p. 576. RISM S2847 (9 copies in total, only one of which is in the U.S.).
"Salmi passaggiati, Severi’s first and most important publication, is one of the most valuable documents for the performance of early 17th-century vocal music, and shows that he was a leading exponent of the florid style of ornamentation favoured in Rome at the time. It contains verset settings, mostly for solo voice and organ, of eight vesper psalms, the Magnificat and the Miserere. The voice part consists of elaborate divisions on falsobordone, which in the Miserere was composed by Fabrizio Dentice and in the other items is based on the psalm tones. Detailed instructions on performance are found in Severi’s preface, which says that such embellishments were normally improvised and that his psalms are typical of the Roman style, which was cultivated especially by the castratos of the papal choir and is echoed in the toccatas of Frescobaldi." Colin Timms in Grove Music Online.
Engraved throughout. First two leaves with text within triple-ruled borders. With decorative publisher's device to title and fine decorative devices throughout.
Contains:
Dixit Dominus Primo tuono, p. 1
Confitebor tibi Domine Secondo tuono, p. 8
Beatus vir Terzo tuono, p. 15
Laudate pueri Quarto tuono, p. 22
Laudate Dominum omnes gentes Quinto tuono, p. 29
Magnificat Sesto tuono, p. 33
Nisi Dominus Settimo tuono, p. 41
In conuertendo ottavo tuono, p. 47
In exitu Misto tuono, p. 54
Miserere mei Deus, p. 61
Contemporary manuscript annotations to front free endpaper "... Libro di Canto figurato 1660" and rear endpapers.
Binding worn, soiled, and stained, with small holes to outer corner of upper; gilt faded; endpapers worn and stained with minor loss, free front endpaper with small circular dampstain and resulting hole to lower blank margin. Slightly worn and soiled; some margins slightly browned and foxed; light staining to lower portion of title and following several leaves, not affecting legibility. Margins very slightly trimmed, occasionally within platemark and just touching part identification or page numbers to upper margins in several instances. First Edition. BUC p. 941. Gaspari II, p. 311. Lesure p. 576. RISM S2847 (9 copies in total, only one of which is in the U.S.).
"Salmi passaggiati, Severi’s first and most important publication, is one of the most valuable documents for the performance of early 17th-century vocal music, and shows that he was a leading exponent of the florid style of ornamentation favoured in Rome at the time. It contains verset settings, mostly for solo voice and organ, of eight vesper psalms, the Magnificat and the Miserere. The voice part consists of elaborate divisions on falsobordone, which in the Miserere was composed by Fabrizio Dentice and in the other items is based on the psalm tones. Detailed instructions on performance are found in Severi’s preface, which says that such embellishments were normally improvised and that his psalms are typical of the Roman style, which was cultivated especially by the castratos of the papal choir and is echoed in the toccatas of Frescobaldi." Colin Timms in Grove Music Online.