How to Select a Performing Edition

2002 ◽  
Vol 88 (4) ◽  
pp. 24-57
Author(s):  
Sion M. Honea
Keyword(s):  
Performing Edition

Samuel Wesley and the Missa De Spiritu Sancto

1999 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-319
Author(s):  
Philip Olleson
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Performing Edition ◽  
Subsequent Performance ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
World Premiere

A good deal of attention has been paid in recent years to the relationships between Methodists and Catholics in England in the eighteenth century and, in particular, to John Wesley’s own dealings with Catholics and Catholicism. This article examines a link with Catholicism at the very heart of Methodism’s first family: the involvement of Samuel Wesley (1766–1837), the younger of the two musician sons of Charles Wesley, and the nephew of John. As will be seen below, Wesley converted in 1784, marking the occasion by composing an elaborate setting of the Ordinary of the Mass (the Missa de Spiritu Sancto) which he sent to Pope Pius VI. This article discusses the background to the composition of the Mass, its musical content, and the subsequent history of its autograph score. It is prompted by the publication of a performing edition of the work and by a subsequent performance (almost certainly the world première) in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, on 10 September 1997, which was recorded and later broadcast on both Irish and British radio.

Night of the seven stars? Productions of Giacomo Meyerbeer'sLes Huguenotson DVD - Die Hugenotten (Deutsche Oper production released on DVD in 2001) Stage director: John Dew Set and costume designer: Gottfried Pilz Performing edition: John Dew German translation: Ignatz Franz Castelli (1837) Cast: Angela Denning (Margarethe von Valois), Lucy Peacock (Valentine), Richard Leech (Raoul von Nangis), Hartmut Welker (Graf von Saint-Bris), Camille Capasso (Urban), Martin Blasius (Marcel), Lenus Carlson (Graf von Nevers) Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin Conductor: Stefan Soltesz Chorus master: Georg Metz Director for television: Brian Large ArtHaus DVD 100156 PAL/100157 NTSC: arthaus-musik.com £24.99 from www.amazon.co.uk - Les Huguenots (Opera Australia production released on DVD in 2002) Stage director: Lotfi Mansouri Set designer: John Stoddart Costume designer: Michael Stennett Lighting designer: Derek Coutts Choreographer: Lois Strike Cast: Joan Sutherland (Marguerite de Valois), Anson Austin (Raoul de Nangis), Amanda Thane (Valentine), Clifford Grant (Marcel), Suzanne Johnston (Urbain), John Pringle (Comte de Nevers), John Wegner (Comte de Saint Bris) Conductor: Richard Bonynge Director for television: Virginia Lumsden Kultur DVD D0029: www.kultur.com £19.99 from www.amazon.co.uk

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 365-373
Author(s):  
Cormac Newark
Keyword(s):  
Performing Edition ◽  
German Translation

scholarly journals The Music of Rene Drouard de Bousset (1703-1760): a Source Study and Stylistic Survey, with Emphasis on His Sacred Output

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Felicity Smith
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Sacred Music ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
French Language ◽  
Performing Edition ◽  
Musical Style ◽  
French Music ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
Source Study ◽  
French Tradition

<p>Rene Drouard de Bousset (1703-1760) was an admired composer and an organist of renown. This thesis examines this musician's life and work, and attempts to bring Bousset's music, hitherto largely unknown, to the attention of musicologists and performers today. Primarily a source study, the thesis makes a survey of all known copies of Bousset's published works, addressing questions of dates, reprints and corrections. Historical context and musical style are also discussed. Particular emphasis is given to Bousset's sacred music in the French language two volumes of sacred cantatas and eight settings of Odes sacrees by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau - and its place within the French tradition of Psalm paraphrase settings. The figure of J.B. Rousseau is also examined, as the librettist of Bousset's Odes, and as an important literary contributor to French music at the turn of the eighteenth century. The source study is supplemented by a catalogue in the style of the PhilidorOeuvres database produced by the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, containing all Bousset's known works, extant and lost. This exposition of Bousset's compositional output is prefaced by a biographical overview assembled principally from eighteenth century publications and archival documents. Volume II of this thesis comprises a critical performing edition of Bousset's first volume of Cantates spirituelles (1739).</p>

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