Bettina Hoffmann
Catalogue of Solo and Chamber Music for Viola da Gamba
author
Charpentier, Marc-Antoine
1643-1704
work information
Pastorale sur la naissance de n[otre] S[eigneur] J[ésus] C[hrist] (Hitchcock 483 and 483a)
manuscript
date
1684
scoring
4 voxS + voxA + voxT + 2 voxB + voxCh + 2 vs + 2 fl + bc
where
source
F-Pn Rés Vm1-259 vol. 21, fol. 57r-74v
online copy
modern edition(s)
Minkoff
further information
notes
The two high-pitched instrumental parts do not bear an explicit instrument designation at the beginning of the piece, but are referred to within the score as «violes» and «flutes». The two pairs of instruments play partly in unison, partly in alternation.
RISM
bibliography
Shirley Thompson, The Autograph Manuscripts of Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Clues to Performance, Thesis, University of Hull, 1997, pp. 64ff.
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
