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Some of our older editions (marked P) are based typographically on Malipiero, but have been edited afresh from the sources.

  Adoramus te, Christe (1620)
SSATB org
KM78     £1.00
  Altri canti d'amor (1638)
SATTB, 6 strings, bc
KM139 score P £5.00
  Strings   each   £1.00
  Altri canti di Marte (1638)
SATTB 2 vln, bc
KM138 score P £5.00
  Strings   each   £1.00
  Ballo dell' Ingrate (1608/38)   score P £ 5.00
  5 string parts & chorus scores   set   £10.00
  Ballo Volgendo il ciel... Movete...(1638) KM144 score   £5.00
  vln I, vln II, bc parts   each   £2.00
  Beatus vir I (1641) vln 1, 2 & bass parts only KM299     £5.00
  Cantata Domino (1620)
SSATTB org
KM333     £2.00
  Chiome d'oro
(1619) SS, 2 vlns, bc
KM404     £2.00
  set of 5 copies       £5.00
  Christe adoramus te (1620)
SSATB org
KM51     £1.00
  Combattimento... (1624/38)   score P £4.00
  set of 4 scores       £12.00
  set of 4 parts     £10.00
  Confitebor III (1641) SSATB [or S & str] KM162     £3.00
  score + 5 parts       £7.50
  Currite populi (1625) T [or S] bc KM68 2 copies   £2.00
  Dixit Dominus I (1650) SATB SATB org KM390     £3.50
  Dixit Dominus II (1650) SATB ATTB org KM380     £4.00
  Domine ne in furore (1620) SSATBB org KM155     £1.00
  Ego flos campi (1624) A [=high T] bc
Original pitch and also up a fourth for S/mS
  2 copies   £2.00
  Exulta filia Sion S/T org KM163 2 copies   £2.50
  Exultent caeli (1629) SSATB org KM275     £2.50
  ad lib doubling parts in Tr Tr Tr/A Tr8/T B clefs   each   £1.00
  Gloria a 7 (1641) SSATTBB   score P £4.00
  2 violins, [4 trmbn ad lib], bc   set MS £10.00
  Hor ch'el ciel e la terra SSATTB KM141 score P £5.00
  vln I, II, bc   each   £1.00
  Laetania della Beata Vergine (1650)
SSATTB org
KM386     £4.50
  Laetatus sum (1650)
SSTTBB 2 vln, 2 trmbn, fag, org
KM382     £3.50
  parts   each   £1.00
  Lamento della Ninfa
STTB bc
KM142 score   £2.50
  5 scores & Bc       £10.00
  Lauda Jerusalem (1650)
SATTB org
KM356     £3.50
  Laudate Dominum (1641)
S/T org
KM35 2 scores   £2.00
  Laudate Dominum (1650)
B org
KM399 2 scores   £2.00
  Laudate pueri (1650)
SATTB org
either down a tone or a 4th
KM381     £2.50
  L'incoronatione di Poppea (1643)
Critical edition giving version of both MSS
Performance fee by negotiation. Abridged German version available.
KM52 score   £30.00
  Pur ti miro SS KM4 3 scores   £2.50 
  Laudate Dominum (1641)
S [or T] org
  2 scores   £2.00
  Magnificat a6 (1610) KM16     £5.00
  Magnificat a8 (1641) KM276     £10.00
  2 vln. 4 trmbn/viola   set   £15.00
  Ninfa che scalza il piede (1638)
TTB bc
KM147     £3.00
  Nisi Dominus a3 (1650) STB, 2 vln org KM383     £3.00
  parts       £3.00
  Nisi Dominus a6 (1650)
SSATTB org
KM332     £3.00
  O quam pulchra es (1625) T [or S] org KM47 2 scores   £2.00
Orfeo (1607) KM65 score B4   £20.00
      score A4   £16.00
 

Act III & IV Sinfonias & Choruses at pitch and down a fourth.
(Parts also give option of down a fifth)
Instrumental parts & chorus scores available. Performance fee by negotiation.
Available either with Italian underlay and English translation at foot of each page or with English text by Anne Ridler underlaid below the Italian.
Performance fee for the English text by Anne Ridler by negotiation with Faber Music.

       
  Behind the Masque (Philip Pickett on performing Orfeo)       £12.00
  Il ritorno d'Ulisse (1640) in preparation
Abridged version produced with Alan Hacker for the Staatstheater Stuttgart with cuts & some modern instrumentation available by negotiation.
       
  Salve Regina (1625)
T org
KM384 2 scores   £2.00
  Salve Regina (1641)
TT org
KM274 3 scores   £3.00
  Sancta Maria (1618/27) SS org KM385 3 scores   £3.00
  Su pastorelli vezzosi (1638) SSA bc KM148     £1.00
  Tempro la cetra (1619)
T, 2 vln, 2 vle, bc
KM188 score & set   £7.50
      extra scores   £2.50
  Tirsi e Clori (1616/19) KM179 score   £4.00
  5 string parts   each   £1.00
  BC part       £2.50
  Ut queant laxis (1641) SS, vln I, II, bc KM67     £2.00
  6 scores & a bass part       £5.00
  Vago augelletto SSATTTB 2 vln, cb KM143 score P £3.00
  Parts   each   £1.00
  Vespers of the Virgin mostly from 1650 psalms       £15.00
  Zefiro torna (1632) TT [or SS] KM36 three scores   £3.00
 
       
 

Vespers (1610)

edited by Clifford Bartlett

       
    KM63 Score B4   £20.00
      Score A4   £15.00
  Figured continuo part       £7.50
  Obbligato parts (Movs. 1, 2, 11, 12, 13)   set   £30.00
  Doubling parts (ad lib doublings to movs. 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, with alternative clefs for the middle parts)   set   £30.00
 

Available in two standard versions:
Red: Lauda Jerusalem & Magnificat down a fourth
Blue: Lauda Jerusalem & Magnificat at notated pitch
Green: non-standard versions
We can supply other transpositions, e.g. for an A415 organ playing with A460 wind or for Lauda Jerusalem down a tone.

       
  Liturgical guide: includes chant for the main Marian feasts and contemporary instructions for its performance.       £3.00
 

Programme notes of various lengths and text with translation carefully set in parallel are available.

This is the only edition which keeps abreast of current scholarship and is flexible enough to suit all performance ideas. It leaves as many decisions as possible to the conductor; but if help is required, please phone to discuss your ideas.

       

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