Deus in Adjutorium

Claudio Monteverdi, Arranged by Nigel Hall

Instrumentation: Brass Band

Length: 4 Minutes

Difficulty: C Grade

Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine (1610) is one of his most glorious works. When Monteverdi published Vespers in Venice, he was known as the most prolific composer of secular music in all Italy, a composer who went beyond the conventions of his time, exploring novel ideas. Today, he is recognized as the composer of the “first true opera,” having published L’Orfeo just a year earlier.

Vespro della Beata Vergine is a set of psalms, vocal and instrumental concertos and ritornelli, which uses the force of several vocal soloists, a 6-to-10-part vocal ensemble (which many times splits into two independent multi-voice choirs), and an instrumental ensemble of 10 or more different instruments.

Deus in Adjutorium comes frmo the opening of the Vespers and is a bright, lively opening performed with cornettes and sackbuts originally.

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