Psalmi Davidis : 1579 /
Servin, Jean,approximately 1530-composer.
Porter, James,1937-editor.
Green, Roger(Roger P. H.),translator.
Musical setting of (work):Buchanan, George,1506-1582.Psalmorum Davidis paraphrasis poetica.
The present edition of Jean Servin's 'XLI Psalmi Davidis' is the first since the work was published in Geneva in 1579. At that time it followed on the publication, in 1578, of two volumes by Servin, Premier (Second) Livre de Chansons Nouvelles à quatre, cinq, six, sept et huit parties, and another entitled Meslange de Chansons Nouvelles à quatre parties. The Psalmi Davidis and all three volumes of chansons were published by Charles Pesnot with an imprint of Lyon ('Lugduni'), apparently because the publisher wanted to sell them in France at a time when importation of books from Geneva was banned; in particular, he wanted to make them available through the book-fairs in cities like Lyon. In the context of the times such polyphonic works with an imprint of Lyon would have greater appeal to a French public than volumes ostensibly printed in Geneva, then a refuge for Protestants fleeing the Wars of Religion such as Servin and his editor, Simon Goulart, pastor of the Reformed church of St Gervais for some forty years.
A musical setting of the first 41 of George Buchanan's neo-latin poetic paraphrases of the psalms, issued by Josiah Rihel, Strasboug, 1566.
For unaccompanied mixed voices; includes nineteen settings for 4 voices, fifteen for 5 voices, four for 6 voices, one for 7 voices and two for 8 voices, with a varying number of voices in the middle sections.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction in English with French translation; commentary in English.
The present edition of Jean Servin's 'XLI Psalmi Davidis' is the first since the work was published in Geneva in 1579. At that time it followed on the publication, in 1578, of two volumes by Servin, Premier (Second) Livre de Chansons Nouvelles à quatre, cinq, six, sept et huit parties, and another entitled Meslange de Chansons Nouvelles à quatre parties. The Psalmi Davidis and all three volumes of chansons were published by Charles Pesnot with an imprint of Lyon ('Lugduni'), apparently because the publisher wanted to sell them in France at a time when importation of books from Geneva was banned; in particular, he wanted to make them available through the book-fairs in cities like Lyon. In the context of the times such polyphonic works with an imprint of Lyon would have greater appeal to a French public than volumes ostensibly printed in Geneva, then a refuge for Protestants fleeing the Wars of Religion such as Servin and his editor, Simon Goulart, pastor of the Reformed church of St Gervais for some forty years.
Bible.
Bible.
Psalms (Music)
Motets.
Part songs, Sacred.
Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied.
Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied.
Motets.
Part songs, Sacred.
Psalms (Music)