So You Want to Sing Early Music: A Guide for Performers

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Chapters 2-5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Appendix C / About the Author

Chapter 1 – Historical Overview of the Repertoire

1-1 Hildegard of Bingen: “O Virga Mediatrix Alleluia”
1-2 Hildegard of Bingen: “Canticles of Ecstasy”
1-3 Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame
1-4 Dunstable: Veni Sancte Spiritus
1-5 Dunstable: Ave Maris Stella
1-6 Dufay: Nuper Rosarum Flores
1-7 Ockeghem: Missa Prolationum
1-8 Josquin des Prez: “La déploration sur la mort de Jean Ockeghem”
1-9 Josquin des Prez: “El Grillo”
1-10 Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli
1-11 Victoria: O Magnum Mysterium
1-12 Lassus: Timor et Tremor
1-13 Lassus: Dessus le marché d’Arras
1-14 Tallis: Spem in Alium
1-15 Byrd: “Sing Joyfully”
1-16 Morley: “It Was a Lover and His Lass”
1-17 Dowland: “In Darkness Let Me Dwell”
1-18 Monteverdi: Vespers
1-19 Monteverdi: “Lamento de la Ninfa”
1-20 Cavalli: La Calisto
1-21 Strozzi: “L’amante segreto”
1-22 Scarlatti: Bella dama di nome
1-23 Steffani: Chamber Duets
1-24 Schütz: “Bringt her dem Herren”
1-25 Buxtehude: Dixit Dominus Meo
1-26 Lully: Excerpt from Armide
1-27 Couperin: Troisième leçon de ténèbres
1-28 Lawes: “Go, Lovely Rose”
1-29 Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
1-30 Blow: Venus and Adonis
1-31 Vivaldi: Nulla in Mundo Pax Sincera
1-32 Vivaldi: Alla caccia dell’alme e de’cori
1-33 Telemann: Lauter Wonne, lauter Freude
1-34 Rameau: Orphée
1-35 Campra: Arion
1-36 Campra: Jubilate Deo
1-37 Bernier: Medée
1-38 Montéclair: Pan et Syrinx
1-39 Clérambault: L’isle de Délos
1-40 Bach: Coffee Cantata
1-41 Handel: La Lucrezia, “O numi eterni”

Chapter 2 – Singing and Voice Science (Scott McCoy)

Chapter 3 – Vocal Health and World Music Singer (Wendy LeBorgne)

Supplemental Bibliography

Chapter 4 – Grandfathers of Voice Pedagogy

Chapter 5 – Elements of Baroque Style

5-1 Caldara: “Sebben Crudele” (nineteenth-century edition in D minor)
5-2 Bach: Magnificat, “Et exultavit” (Patrizia Kwella)
5-3 Bach: Magnificat, “Quia fecit mihi magna” (score)
5-4 Caccini: “Amarilli, mia bella” (nineteenth-century score in low key)
5-5 Caccini: “Amarilli, mia bella” (Fernando Guimaraes)
5-6 Caccini: “Amore ch’attendi” (Julianne Baird)
5-7 Caccini: “Amore ch’attendi” (score)
5-8 Monteverdi: “Laudate Dominum” (Catherine Bott)
5-9 Monteverdi: “Laudate Dominum” (Philippe Jarousky)
5-10 Handel: Ottone, “Affanni del pensier” (Iwona Sobotka)
5-11 Handel: Orlando, “Fammi combattere” (Bejun Mehta)
5-12 Handel: Orlando, “Fammi combattere” (score with recitative)
5-13 Montéclair: Principes de musique (score)
5-14 Montéclair: Ariane et Bacchus, “Plus cruel” (Fiona Campbell)
5-15 Bach: St. Matthew Passion, “Erbarme dich” (Delphine Galou)
5-16 Bach: Coffee Cantata, “Ei wie schmeckt der Coffee süße” (Emma Kirkby)

Chapter 6 – It’s All Chamber Music

Examples of Staged Productions:

Very traditional staging with period instruments.

6-7 Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (Jordi Savall, conductor)
6-8 Lully: Atys (William Christie, conductor)
6-9 Monteverdi: Poppea (William Christie, conductor)

Traditional staging with modern instruments.

6-10 Monteverdi: Ulysses (with tenor singing Ulysses and Human Frailty)

Modern productions with period instruments.

Modern productions with modern instruments and baroque style.

6-15 Handel: Alcina (Leonardo Garcia Alarcón, conductor)

Semi-staged operas, cantatas, and oratorios.

Fully staged oratorios.

Chapter 7 – Know the Score

7-1 International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
7-2 Partifi
7-3 OCLC WorldCat
7-4 Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL)
7-5 Society for Seventeenth-Century Music
7-6 Bach Digital
7-7 Virtual Messiah
7-8 A-R Editions
7-9 Bärenreiter Verlag
7-10 Early Music Shop
7-11 Clifford Bartlett
7-12 Caccini: “Amarilli, mia bella” (1602 facsimile)
7-13 Caccini: “Amarilli, mia bella” (A-R Editions)
7-14 Dowland: “Weep You No More” (1603 publication)
7-15 Dowland: “Weep You No More” (choral transcription)
7-16 Lute Songs of John Dowland (guitar transcription)
7-17 Dowland: “Weep You No More” (piano transcription)
7-18 Monteverdi: “Possente spirito” (1607 publication)
7-19 Monteverdi: “Possente spirito” (modern transcription)
7-20 Monteverdi: “Lasciatemi morire” (nineteenth-century edition)
7-21 Monteverdi: “Lamento d’Arianna” (1623 facsimile)
7-22 Monteverdi: “Lamento d’Arianna” (1913 complete works edition)
7-23 Monteverdi: “Lamento d’Arianna” (Anne Sophie von Otter)
7-24 Purcell: “Music for a While” (1702 publication)
7-25 Purcell: “Music for a While” (modern transcription)
7-26 Purcell: “Music for a While” (from ChoralWiki)
7-27 Purcell: “Music for a While” (modern transcription from musescore)
7-28 Campra: “L’onde et les Zephirs” (1708 publication)
7-29 Rameau: Orphée (1897 publication)
7-30 Rameau: Orphée (1721 manuscript)
7-31 Rameau: Cantatas français (1897 edition)
7-32 Montéclair: Ariane et Bachus (1728 publication)
7-33 Bach: St. Matthew Passion (various scores available on IMSLP)
7-34 Bach: St. Matthew Passion, “Erbarme dich” (full score manuscript facsimile)
7-35 Bach: St. Matthew Passion, “Erbarme dich” (full score modern transcription)
7-36 Bach: St. Matthew Passion, “Erbarme dich” (piano reduction with mistakes)
7-37 Bach: Coffee Cantata (various scores available on IMSLP)
7-38 Bach: Coffee Cantata (composer's manuscript facsimile)
7-39 Bach: Coffee Cantata, “Ei wie schmeckt der Coffee süße” (copyist's manuscript facsimile)
7-40 Bach: Coffee Cantata, “Ei wie schmeckt der Coffee süße” (soprano part facsimile)
7-41 Handel: Serse (various scores available on IMSLP)
7-42 Handel: Messiah (various scores available on IMSLP)

Chapter 8 – Using All the Tools

Academic Programs:

Summer Workshops:

Specialty Baroque Choruses:

Church Choirs:

Small Consorts:

Young Artist Programs:

Competitions:

Opera Companies:

Early Music Festivals:

Other Resources:

Appendix C

About the Author and Contributors

Martha Elliott’s Personal Website