Con Che Soavità
Studies in Italian Opera, Song, and Dance, 1580-1740
Edited by Iain Fenlon and Tim Carter
Price: £78.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-816370-1
Publication date: 14 December 1995
364 pages, 14 b/w plates, numerous music examples, 234x156 mm
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| Description |
Music in 17th and early 18th century Italy was wonderfully rich and varied: in theatrical and secular vocal chamber music alone, we saw the rise of the solo song and cantata, and the birth and growth of opera, all establishing important new structural and expressive paradigms. But this was also a complex time of uncertainty and change, as 'old' and 'new' interacted in subtle and often
surprising ways. There is still much to document, explore and explain in terms of composers and repertories and their multi-layered contexts.
This collection of essays by European, British and American musicologists seeks to consolidate the recent growth interest in seventeenth century studies. It includes discussions of leading composers (d'India, Monteverdi, Rovetta, Steffani, Albinoni,
Vivaldi and Handel), repertories (chamber laments, staged balli
and operatic mad-scenes), geographical issues (the arrival of Neapolitan opera in Venice), institutional contexts, and iconography. Inspiration for the book was drawn from the poineering research of Nigel Fortune, to whom the volume is dedicated on his 70th birthday.
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Readership: Anyone interested in seventeenth-century Italian vocal music: scholars, postgraduates, undergraduates (all years), singers.
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Edited by Iain Fenlon, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge; Lecturer in Music, Cambridge University and
Tim Carter, Lecturer in Music, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London
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