Ave Maris Stella is a hymn from Monteverdis Vespers of the Blessed Virgin. The work is split into three sections interjected with ritornelo passages. The solo sections provide opportunities for cer...
Beatus Vir was written for SSATTB and organ. The original score suggested that three trombones could be used to double the lowest three voice lines. On some period instrument recordings, cornettos...
A glorious piece of music set for 5 trumpets, 4 horns, 5 trombones, 2 tubas, and optional organ. An ideal large brass work for high school students (perhaps a brass section feature for a concert)....
Originally written for orchestra and a large choir, this powerful work was to be performed in a large church in Venice, perhaps even Saint Mark's Cathedral. One Monteverdi scholar believes that thi...
The multiple volumes of madrigals written by the great Claudio Monteverdi have been performed and recorded extensively. These two madrigals, Cruda Amarilli and Chiome DOro, are very different in st...
