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Con che soavita by Iain Fenlon

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Summary

The seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries were an exciting time in Italian music, and this collection of essays by leading European, British, and American musicologists seeks to consolidate the recent growth of interest in the field, with discussions of leading composers (including Monteverdi, Vivaldi, and Handel), theatrical and secular vocal music, and iconography.

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Con che soavita by Iain Fenlon

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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..splendid book. * Times Literary Supplement *
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ISBN 13 9780198163701
ISBN 10 0198163703
Title Con che soavita
Author Iain Fenlon
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 1995-12-14
Number of pages 358
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