Choirbook 2_02

Choirbook 2_02

[fol. 17r:] ‘TVRBE PER IL / MARTEDÌ SANTO. / DELL’ASOLA.’

Non in die festo

Asola, Giovanni Matteo (source)

Other attributions:
Rovetta, Giovanni

28 (originally 29) ‘Turbe’ for Holy Tuesday

4 vocal parts: Cantus, Altus, Tenor, Bassus

G2, C2, C3, F3

Mark 14–15

Holy Tuesday

Turbe

A-Wn, SA.67.G.59
I-Vnm, It. IV-1134 (=10949)
I-Vsm, B.786 (see Passadore, Rossi: San Marco, no. 1905)

The choirbook transmits a re-elaboration of Giovanni Matteo Asola’s Turbe for Holy Tuesday, published in his Officium Maioris Hebdomadae of 1595 (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino – RISM A2506). In all probability, the re-elaboration was realized after the death of Giovanni Rovetta in 1668 but before the compilation of Choirbook 2 in 1682–1686 by the chapel master Natale Monferrato or another musician in the service of the Ducal Chapel. Asola’s original is notably shortened, and some voices are transposed (Collarile, Suono dell’eterno). The liturgical text differs in several respects (§§1, 2, 5, 12, 18, 24, 25 and 27) from the Evangelistary copied for St Mark’s around 1677 (EM, fols 64r–67r), which itself follows the version set out in the Vulgata Clementina of 1592. In a majority of cases (§§2, 5, 12, 18, 25 and 27), the variants originate in Asola’s setting of 1595. Two variants are specific to ms. 2. §1 contains a shortened version of the text: all other sources present a longer and concordant version. In ms. 2, the original § 24 (‘Ave Rex Iudaeorum’, fols 24v–25r) was eliminated, and strips of paper were glued over all four voices. The omission prompted the renumbering of subsequent sections. The original §24 is present in VC, Asola and EM. At present, it is impossible to establish when or why the section was eliminated.

Caffi: San Marco
Collarile: Suono dell’eterno
Moore: Ceremoniale
Moore: Vespers at St Mark's
Passadore, Rossi: San Marco, no. 1935
Selfridge-Field: Rovetta’s Music

§1: Non in die festo. [VC, Asola and EM: ‘[…] festo, ne forte tumultus fieret in populo.’]
§2: Ut quid perditio ista unguenti facta est? Poterat enim unguentum istud venundari multo [VC and EM: ‘venundari plusquam trecentis denariis’] et dari pauperibus.
§3: Quo vis eamus et paremus tibi, ut manduces Pascha?
§4: Nunquid ego?
§5: Et si omnes scandalizati fuerint [VC and EM: ‘fuerint in te’], sed non ego.
§6: Et si oportuerit me simul commori tibi, non te negabo.
§7: Quemcumque osculatus fuero, ipse est, tenete eum et ducite caute.
§8: Ave Rabbi.
§9: Quoniam nos audivimus eum dicentem: Ego dissolvam templum hoc manufactum et post triduum aliud non manufactum aedificabo.
§10: Non respondes quidquam ad ea, quae tibi obiiciuntur ab his?
§11: Tu es Christus Filius Dei benedicti?
§12: Quid adhuc desideramus testimonium [VC and EM: ‘testes’]? Audistis blasphemiam: quid vobis videtur?
§13: Prophetiza.
§14: Et tu cum Iesu Nazareno eras.
§15: Neque scio, neque novi quid dicas.
§16: Vere ex illis es: nam et Galilaeus es.
§17: Tu es Rex Iudaeorum?
§18: Non respondes quicquam? [EM: ‘quidquam’] Vides in quantis te accusant? [VC: ‘quidquam ab ea quae tibi obiiciuntur ab his?’]
§19: Vultis dimittam vobis Regem Iudaeorum?
§20: Quid ergo vultis faciam regi Iudaeorum?
§21: Crucifige eum.
§22: Quid enim mali fecit?
§23: Crucifige eum.
[§24: Ave Rex Iudaeorum. — omitted in choirbook; present in VC and EM]
§24 [olim §25]: Vah, qui destruis templum Dei et in tribus [originally: ‘in triduo’ – corrected] diebus reaedificas: salvum fac temetipsum, descendens de cruce.
§25 [olim §26]: Alios salvos fecit, seipsum non potest salvum facere? Si Rex Israel est, descendat [VC and EM: ‘Christus Rex Israel descendat’] nunc de cruce ut videamus et credamus.
§26 [olim §27]: Ecce Heliam vocat.
§27 [olim §28]: Sinite: videamus an veniat [VC and EM: ‘si veniat’] Helias ad deponendum eum.
§28 [olim §29]: Vere hic homo Filius Dei erat.

Sources:
no siglum – Choirbook 2
VC – Vulgata Clementina (1592)
EM – Evangelistarium et Epistolarium ad usum Ducali Basilicae Santi Marci Venetiarium (I-Vasp, Capitolo di San Marco, Libri liturgici 15), copied around 1677.
Asola – Giovanni Matteo Asola, Officium Maioris Hebdomadae (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino, 1595); RISM A 2506

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