Allegri: Miserere Mei
  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
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    Allegri: Miserere Mei

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  • smvanroodesmvanroode
    Posts: 966
    Hmmm, the video is not available (at least not in the Netherlands). But, it reminds me of this insightful video on Allegri’s Miserere by Elam Rotem:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9y5N13un9s
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  • M. Jackson Osborn
    Posts: 8,368
    An awfully moving offering, Chuck -
    And an interesting lecture, smvanrode. Many thanks.
    I think that the cleanest, most pure in tone, diction, and blend that I have heard is that by the choir of Clare College, Cambridge, under the direction of Rudolph Neubok.
    But there are so many outstanding offerings that it is really a vain effort to choose just one.
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  • smt
    Posts: 34
    Currently I am singing the piece, comparing scores, version, reading on its history etc etc.
    What I always wonder... it's an example of a very widely used techniques: fauxbourdon or falsobordone. I've also scanned a lot of falsobordone collections (Lassus and Victoria for example) but I never came across such an elaborate falsobordone setting. Is Allegri's Miserere such a singular, outstanding piece or do you know any falsobordone which comes close to it?

    (One notable mention is maybe Byrd's Magnificat peregrini toni although it is not original. I very much love the music. The discussion page says it originates from Byrd's verse anthem 'Behold O God the Sad and Heavy Case' but I could not verify that in the Byrd Edition.)
  • Chaswjd
    Posts: 256
    @smt

    There is a version of the Miserere by Francesco Severi (1595-1630) which alternates chant in the tenor line with highly decorated solo lines.

    https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/f/f6/Severi-Miserere.pdf
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