Salve Regina

• Main Author: Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista 1710-1736 (Author)
• Other Authors: tlas, Allan W.
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Stuyvesant, NY Pendragon Press, Milano G, Ricordi & Co 1994
• Series: Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista 1710-1736 1986 Works. v. 15
• Subjects: Sacred songs (High voice) with string orchestra > acred songs (High voice) with string orchestra > Score; Salve Regina (Music) > alve Regina (Music
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• Item Description: Introd. and critical commentary in English and Italian; Both works for soprano, 2 violins (string orchestra), and continuo
• Physical Description: 1 score (xxxviii, 98 pages) illustrations facsims. 37 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references
• ISBN: 9780945193586 (hbk.)

Of the nine or more settings of the Salve regina attributed to Giovanni Battista Pergolesi by various eighteenth-century sources, only the two presented here can be considered authentic; one in A minor for soprano, strings, and continuo, almost certainly from the earliest stages of his career; the other in C minor for the same forces, one of his most widely disseminated works and possibly his final work, one that is both stylistically and aesthetically on a par with his renowned Stabat Mater. The ninety-two known sources for the work transmit it in no fewer than six distinctly different versions and this publication presents the most striking of them in a series of appendices.