Editor s Preface. is the composer s holograph which is to be found in the library of the Seminario Arcivescovile in Udine, Italy.

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1 This setting o Dixit Dominus (Psalm 110; ulgate 109) is one o the more than tenty extant choral orks ritten by Baldassare Galui or the girls at the onservatory o the Osedale degli Incurabili in enice. The Incurabili as one o our hositals ounded in the sixteenth century to care or the ill, destitute, orhans, and girls having no dory. By the eighteenth century the Osedale degli Incurabili, the Osedale dei Mendicanti, the Osedaleto, and the Osedale della Pieta had develoed and maintained substantial music conservatories hich ere acclaimed to be among the most outstanding in Euroe. 1 Baldassare Galui ( ), a native enetian born on the small nearby island o Burano hence his nickname Il Buranello as engaged as Maestro di Musica at the Osedale dei Mendicanti, , and as Maestro di oro at the Osedale degli Incurabili, ca , and He also had a long association ith San Marco in enice, as icemaestro, , and as Maestro di aella, 1762 until his death in Galui on ame throughout Euroe as a comoser o comic oeras. He traveled to London in 1741, and to Russia at the invitation o atherine the Great in Editor s Preace is the comoser s holograh hich is to be ound in the library o the Seminario Arcivescovile in Udine, Italy. 3 The cello art is unigured in the SSAA setting, but is quite ully igured in the SATB setting or San Marco. In the resent edition all bracketed material is editorial, as are all the breath marks. In addition to the comoser s slurs and articulation marks, the editor has included slurs and articulation marks in arallel assages here Galui does not bother to do so. All such editorial additions are marked or are bracketed. Galui s suerluous accidentals are retained, and ones aarently overlooked are added in brackets. Galui can be delightully inconsistent in his notation. In the irst movement, measures 3, 7, 18, 22, 69, 73; second movement, measures 52 and 56; and third movement, measure 48; he rites eighth notes and eighth rests or the violins on the third and ourth beats but quarter notes or the celli, hereas in the irst movement, measures 50 and 53, and the third movement, measure 52, he rites quarter notes or all arts. His notation is the same in the SATB setting. Dixit Dominus is one o Galui s shorter orks ritten or his nightingales, as he reerred to them, at the Incurabili. On the title age o the manuscrit he rites, Dixit Dominus. Pieno/con 1st. ti/1775/galui, indicating that it is a ork or chorus and instruments ithout soloists. 2 It is one o his e choral orks hich does not contain extended solo movements. The oening instrumental material, in light oera bua style, recurs in each o the three movements, giving the entire ork the orm and sirit o a large rondo. In 1781, Galui desired to use a short setting o Dixit Dominus at San Marco, and arranged his 1775 setting or omen s voices or our mixed voices, adding a air o oboes and horns to the orchestra and excising ten measures rom the second movement. His title age mentions the setting s brevity, DIXIT. Pieno, Brevissimo. The hereabouts o the vocal and instrumental arts are unknon and they are resumed to no longer exist. The only manuscrit o the score It is not uncommon in this eriod or the violas to double the cello art one octave higher. Excet here it signiicantly contributes to the overall texture, this doubling has been omitted in the iano reduction. Likeise, the contrabass customarily doubles the cello art at the loer octave. This doubling has been entirely omitted rom the iano reduction but may, o course, be added here desired. The iano reduction is or use in rehearsal or in a erormance hen a string orchestra is not available. It is not to be used as a continuo realization. A continuo realization or organ or harsichord, to be used in orchestral erormance, has been reared by the editor and is available searately. David Larson Roosevelt University hicago, Illinois March, Inormation concerning the enetian Osedali can be ound in Kathi Meyer s Der chorische Gesang der Frauen, Leizig: Breitko und Härtel, 1917; Denis Arnold s Orhans and Ladies: the enetian onservatories ( ) in Proceedings o the Royal Music Association, 89th Session, ,. 3147; and Sven Hansell s Sacred Music at the Incurabili in ournal o the American Musicological Society, XXIII Nos. 2 and 3, (1970) , To measures marked Solo aear in the third movement. 3 A acsimile edition o the manuscrit, reared by Siro isilino, as ublished by the Seminary in 1964.

2 Preace to the Revised Edition The late David Larson, a renoned musicologist, transcribed and edited Galui s SSAA and SATB settings o Dixit Dominus (Psalm 110) nearly 40 years ago. In 1997, as a testament to his ork and the continued oularity o the comosition, an udated SSAA edition, incororating an imroved notational style and a slightly revised keyboard realization, as made available. To avoid notational clutter, many o Larson s editorial suggestions have been ully integrated into this erormance edition. This SATB edition matches the 1997 SSAA version in terms o measure numbers, dynamics, and articulations, and is comatible ith the string and continuo accomaniment released concurrently ith that edition, ith a e excetions (see notes belo). We oer ith ride the revised edition o Galui s Dixit Dominus and hoe that this ne edition ill make it ossible or choirs o ourart mixed voices to once again enoy this masterork. Perormance notes Ten measures in the second movement (measures 67 and 6370) ere not included in Galui s on SATB version, but are resent in the SSAA version as ell as the available instrumental accomaniment. These measures are bracketed in the SATB score. It is at the director s discretion hether to include or omit these measures in erormance. Galui s orchestra or the SATB version included to horns and to oboes, but those arts are resumed lost. The reviously ublished accomaniment or strings and continuo is generally comatible ith this SATB edition, ith the rominent excetion o a e measures in movement three. For measures 1321, the director should instruct cello/bass/ continuo to lay the olloing art:

3 Dixit Dominus Text and Translation (Psalm 110) I. Dixit Dominus Domino meo: Sede a dextris meis, donec onam inimicos tuos scabellum deum tuorum. irgam virtutis tuae emittet Dominus ex Sion. Dominare in medio inimicorum tuorum! Tecum rinciium in die virtutis tuae, in slendoribus sanctorum. Ex utero ante lucierum genui te. II. uravit Dominus, et non oenitebit eum, Tu es sacerdos in aeternum secundum ordinem Melchisedech. Dominus a dextris tuis; conregit in die irae suae reges. III. udicabit in nationibus; imlebit ruinas; conquassabit caita in terra multorum. De torrente in via bibet; roterea exaltabit caut. Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Siritu Sancto. Sicut erat in rinciio, et nunc et semer, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen. The Lord says to my lord: Sit at my right hand, till I make your enemies your ootstool. The Lord sends orth rom Zion your mighty sceter. Rule in the midst o your oes! Your eole ill oer themselves reely on the day you lead your host in holy array. From the omb o the morning like de your youth ill come to you. The Lord has sorn and ill not change his mind, You are a riest orever ater the order o Melchizedek. The Lord is at your right hand; he ill shatter kings on the day o his rath. He ill execute his udgment among the nations, illing them ith corses; he ill shatter the head over the ide earth. He ill drink rom the brook by the ay; thereore he ill lit u his head. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Sirit. As it as in the beginning, is no and ever shall be, orld ithout end. Amen.

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