Didn't know Usper wrote big stuff--can you point me towards some? dt
At 02:34 PM 11/1/2009, you wrote: >On Nov 1, 2009, at 2:01 PM, David Tayler wrote: > > > I came > > across this quote from the book Venetian instrumental music from > > Gabrieli to Vivaldi > > by Eleanor Selfridge-Field dated 1607 > >Wow... you must have the first edition. Mine is the third, revised, >1994. > > > > > There was a concert of the best musicians that they had [involving] > > as many voices as instruments, principally six little jewels of > > organs besides that of the church, which is very fine, and trombones > > or sackbuts, and viols, violins, lutes, cornetts made from [animal] > > horns, recorders and flageolets. > > Six portative organs! > >Seven organs dispersed around the church would be just the right >number for a work with seven choirs, such as Gabrieli's Magnificat a >33, or some similarly grand work by Francesco Usper or someone else >who worked at the church of San Salvador, which is what the above >report, by the French diplomat Jean-Baptiste du Val, is about. >-- > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
