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Volume 1 (1995) No. 1

Jonathan Glixon

Far il buon concerto: Music at the Venetian Scuole Piccole in the Seventeenth Century

Table 1
Musical Ensembles at the Scuola dello Spirito Santo

Note: The first figure in each column is for the feast of Pentecost itself; the following figure is for the two following days

  1691 1695 1695/Lotti
Singers 12 reduced by
one eighth
12 8 12 5
sopranos 3 3 2
altos 3 3 2
tenors 3 3 2
basses 3 2 2
Instrumentalists 18 reduced by
one third
13 7 15 9
organs 3 3 1 3 1
viole 2 - 1 - -
violins 4 3 2 4 2
violette 4 3 2 4 2
cornetti 2 1 (1) - -
theorbo 1 1 - 1 1
trumpet 1 1 (1) 1 1
violoncino - - - 1 1
violone 1 1 - 1 1
Expenditure D. 90 D. 100 D. 100

Source: Archivio di Stato di Venezia, Scuole Piccole e Suffraggi, Busta 670.


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