This handbook provides a guide to <strong>Monteverdi</strong>'s Vespers in all its aspects from an introduction to the service of Vespers itself, through the pr... » 

This handbook provides a guide to Monteverdi's Vespers in all its aspects from an introduction to the service of Vespers itself, through the practice of chanting psalms in plainsong to analysis of the composer's settings, ranging from the motet Nigra sum to the psalm Laetatus sum. «