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1 score (xxxii, 274 pages, 4 pages of plates) : facsimiles ; 31 cm.
Benedetto Marcello ; edited by Michael Burden.
Oratorio, probably written for the feast of the Assumption for the church of San Giovanni, a Jesuit institution in Macerata, in the Marche region of Italy.
For solo voices (Musica [S], Poesia [A], SATB), chorus (SATB), and string orchestra (2 violins, viola, basso continuo).
Librettist unknown; possibly by Giulio Vitelleschi and/or the composer.
Edited from manuscript scores in the Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, Brussels (Ms II 3931 Mus Fétis 2173) and Rowe Music Library, King's College, Cambridge (Rowe MS 204), and manuscript libretto in the Archivio Doria Pamphilj, Rome (no. 289).
Includes introduction and critical report.
Appendix contains an alternative ending for part 1 of the oratorio.
Italian words; also printed as text with English translation by Mark Pobjoy on pages xvii-xxxii.
Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices) with string orchestra
Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Recent researches in the music of the baroque era
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