Christmas vespers
Subtitle: antiphons, Psalms, and hymn, for soloists, double choir, instruments, and organ continuo
By: Claudio Monteverdi ; edited by Denis Stevens.
Contributors: Stevens, Denis, 1922-; Monteverdi, Claudio, 1567-1643.
Publisher: Novello
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Borough Green, Sevenoaks, Kent
Language: lat
Number of pages: 4300
Subjects: Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices) with orchestra -- Scores.; Vespers (Music); Christmas music.
Work titles: Selva morale e spirituale.
Notes: Novello 07 0430 10.

Novello 20240.

Solo voices: SSATTBarB; acc. for 4 trombones, string orchestra, and unfigured bass realized for organ; Latin words.

All from the composer's Selva morale e spirituale except the Beatus vir, which isfrom the collection Messa a quattro voci et Salmi (Vincenti, 1650).

Duration: ca. 43:00.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Dixit Dominus : (Psalm 109); value: Confitebor tibi : (Psalm 110); value: Beatus vir : (Psalm 111); value: Laudate pueri : (Psalm 112); value: Laudate Dominum : (Psalm 116); value: Christe Redemptor omnium : hymn.