Con che soavita : Studies in Italian Opera, Song, and Dance, 1580-1740 Hardback
Edited by Iain (Fellow of King's College, Cambridge; Lecturer in Music, Fellow of King's College, Camb Fenlon, Tim (Lecturer in Music, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, Lecturer in Music, Royal Hol Carter
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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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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:358 pages, 14 pp plates, numerous music examples
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:14/12/1995
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- ISBN:9780198163701
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:358 pages, 14 pp plates, numerous music examples
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:14/12/1995
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- ISBN:9780198163701