Bettina Hoffmann
Catalogue of Solo and Chamber Music for Viola da Gamba
Charpentier, Marc-Antoine
Élévation «Famem meam quis replebit» (Hitchcock 408), for two sopranos, bass, two unnamed treble instruments, 2 bass viols and basso continuo (harpsichord and bass violin)
manuscript
F-Pn Rés Vm1-259 (Mélanges autographes), vol. XX, f. 24r-28v
Minkoff
The viol parts are labelled «1re viole» and «S[econ]de viole», their ranges and chords fit perfectly with the bass viols. The two treble instruments are unlabelled, so they are most probably intended to the violins.
Shirley Thompson, The Autograph Manuscripts of Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Clues to Performance, thesis, University of Hull, 1997
Shirley Thompson, Marc-Antoine Charpentier and the viol, «Early Music», 2004, pp. 497-510
Hugh Wiley Hitchcock, Les Œuvres de / The works of / Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Paris, Picard, 1982
