La Bavara by Glenn Smith Brass Quintet - Sheet Music

SKU: ET.ENS84

ISBN 9790207002945.

La Bavara (the Bavarian woman) is one of twenty-eight vocal and instrumental works for from one to six parts published by Nicolao Hanrico (Nikolaus Heinrich) in Monaco (Munich) in 1621 under the title Musicali Melodie. The list of compositions included in Musicali Melodie are printed in Sartori's Bibliografia della musica strumentale italiana stampata in Italia fino al 1700. A note in Sartori indicates: "The complete collection was in the Proskesche Musikbibliothek, Regensburg, before World War II. Actually it is now lost. The description of the collection as printed was provided by Alfred Einstein."

Little is known of the composer. In "Biographisch-bibliographisches Quellen-Lexikon der Musiker und Musikgelehrten", Robert Eitner used the German spelling of his name: Johann Martin Caesar[iusl, I. According to Eitner, Cesare was a cornetto player in the Bavarian Court Band in 1612. Apparently Musicali Melodie was his major work.

The present edition is based on a microfilm of manuscripts copied by the late Dr. Einstein in European libraries at the turn of the century. Cesare originally specified two alto and two tenor trombones in corresponding clefs, and a continuo part for organ.
In this edition, the part for a keyboard instrument has been omitted and the continuo line assigned to a fifth trombone (or tuba). The original key has been retained. Dynamics, barlines, breath marks, and accidentals in parentheses in the score, are editorial. Note values have been halved in the first triple meter section.
In order to make this historic composition playable by mixed brass quintets, the editor has supplied parts for two trumpets and horn as alternates for the three upper trombone parts. Some optional notes in the lower octave have been added to the fifth part for tuba.

Glenn Smith, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor March, 1977.