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Francesco Bartolomeo Conti

Author : Hermine Weigel Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780429838064

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Francesco Bartolomeo Conti by Hermine Weigel Williams Pdf

First Published in 1999, Hermine Weigel Williams’ study draws on more than thirty years of research to fill this noticeable lacuna , and presents here the first full scale life and works of the composer for over ninety years. Part One of the book surveys the biographical aspects of Conti’s career. Appointed court theorist at the age of nineteen, Conti was promoted to court composer in 1713-14. Williams examines Conti’s creative collaborations with some of the leading poet-librettists of the day, and the influence of his music that can be identified in works by Telemann, Bach and Handel. Part Two comprises close analyses of Conti’s compositions: his instrumental music, cantatas, operas, intermezzos, oratorios and sacred music. Williams reveals Conti as a composer who constantly experimented with a wide range of French, German and Italian ideas and techniques to create his own diverse musico-dramatic style.

Il Mio Bel Foco

Author : Francesco Bartolomeo Conti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1090416059

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Il Mio Bel Foco by Francesco Bartolomeo Conti Pdf

Francesco Bartolomeo Conti (traditionally attributed to Benedetto Marcello) - Il mio bel foco, Recitativo ed Aria, For Voice and Piano, Original key and transposed versions for medium, high and low voices (E Minor - original key, A Minor, G Minor).

Serenata and Festa Teatrale in 18th Century Europe

Author : Iskrena Yordanova,Paologiovanni Maione
Publisher : Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783990125212

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Serenata and Festa Teatrale in 18th Century Europe by Iskrena Yordanova,Paologiovanni Maione Pdf

This volume is dedicated to "Serenata and Festa Teatrale in 18th Century Europe", especially to the production of this music-dramatic genre at the courts on the Iberian Peninsula, in Italy, and the Holy Roman Empire where it was an integral part of court ceremonials and a privileged ritual of repraesentatio maiestatis. The 16 studies on patrons and artists, exceptional events and local traditions, reveal highly interesting material for the research on these up to now largely neglected genre. Any approach to these works full of metaphors, symbols and allusions has to take into account the context of the celebration and the resulting multiplicity of aspects: choice of themes, dramaturgical forms, textual and musical structures, vocal and instrumental ensembles, and the various options regarding the stage apparatus. "Serenata and Festa Teatrale in 18th Century Europe", edited by Iskrena Yordanova (Lisbon) and Paologiovanni Maione (Naples), inaugurates the series "Cadernos de Queluz", a subseries of "Specula Spectacula" by Don Juan Archiv Wien.

The Italian Cantata in Vienna

Author : Lawrence Bennett
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253010346

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The Italian Cantata in Vienna by Lawrence Bennett Pdf

A history of music for the imperial court “from a professor, choral director, and professional tenor who has studied Viennese cantatas for half a century” (Lowell Lindgren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Lawrence Bennett provides a comprehensive study of the rich repertoire of accompanied vocal chamber music that entertained the imperial family in Vienna and their guests throughout the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The cantata became a form of elite entertainment composed to amuse listeners during banquets or pay homage to members of the royal family during special occasions. Concentrating on Baroque cantatas composed in the Habsburg court, Bennett draws extensively on primary source material to explore the stylistic changes that occurred within the genre in the generations before Haydn and Mozart. “An important book. It deserves to be warmly welcomed not only by scholars but also by performers of Baroque vocal chamber music.” —Early Music “Shed[s] light on an important yet seldom-discussed repertory, written by someone whose expertise is unquestionable.” —Music and Letters “By taking multiple analytical approaches, Bennett establishes an overall understanding while also demonstrating how individual composers approached the genre. . . . Recommended.” —Choice “An important tool for understanding the context in which cantatas were composed and performed, and in which the Hapsburgs’ important music collection . . . was created.” —Notes “A wealth of new information . . . from a scholar who writes clearly and perceptively, and who has devoted decades of attention to the material.” —Steven Saunders, Charles A. Dana Professor of Music, Colby College

The Operas of Leonardo Vinci, Napoletano

Author : Kurt Sven Markstrom
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 1576470946

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The Operas of Leonardo Vinci, Napoletano by Kurt Sven Markstrom Pdf

Vinci produced a string of operas during a brief career of little more than a decade. He died mysteriously. He was hailed by connoisseurs of the later 18th century as one of the originators of the classical style.

The Baroque Clarinet

Author : Albert R. Rice
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1992-01-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780199799046

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The Baroque Clarinet by Albert R. Rice Pdf

The Baroque Clarinet is a sourcebook for the historical study of the European clarinet during the first half of the eighteenth century. The book is based on a comprehensive study of the theoretical, musical, and iconographical evidence, and many conclusions are presented here for the first time. The opening chapter provides a general view of the precursors of the clarinet. The remainder of the book looks in detail at the baroque clarinet: its design and construction, its playing techniques, the music written for it, and its use by both amateur and professional players. Of particular interest is the author's investigation into aspects of performance practice at various points in the instrument's development. The book is generously illustrated with pictures and music examples, and the appendix provides an inventory and short description of extant baroque clarinets. - ;List of illustrations; List of music examples; Abbreviations; Origins; The earliest instruments; Playing techniques of the baroque clarinet; Music for the baroque clarinet; The use of the baroque clarinet by amateurs and professionals; Appendix: A checklist of extant baroque clarinets; Bibliography; Index -

The Baroque Clarinet and Chalumeau

Author : Albert R. Rice
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190916718

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The Baroque Clarinet and Chalumeau by Albert R. Rice Pdf

The first edition of Albert R. Rice's The Baroque Clarinet is widely considered the authoritative text on the European clarinet during the first half of the eighteenth century. Since its publication in 1992, its conclusions have influenced the approaches of musicologists, instrument historians, and clarinet performers. Twenty-eight years later, Rice has updated his renowned study in a second edition, with new chapters on chalumeau and clarinet music, insights on newly found instruments and additional material on the Baroque clarinet in society. Expanding the volume to include the chalumeau, close cousin and predecessor to the clarinet, Rice draws on nearly three decades of new research on the instrument's origins and music. Discoveries include two recently found chalumeaux in a private collection, one by Johann Heinrich Eichentopf of Leipzig, and attributions based on historical evidence for three more chalumeaux. Rice furthers the discussion to recently uncovered early instruments and historical scores, which shed light on the clarinet's evolution. Most essentially, Rice highlights the chalumeau's substantial late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth century repertory, comprising over 330 works by 66 composers, and includes a more expansive list of surviving Baroque clarinet works, organized by date, composer, and tonality/range. The Baroque Clarinet and Chalumeau provides a long-awaited follow-up to Rice's groundbreaking volume, drawing from a variety of sources-including German, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Flemish, Czech, and Catalan research-to bring this new information to an English-speaking audience. With his dedication to scholarly accuracy, Rice brings the Baroque clarinet into sharper focus than ever before.

A Short History of Opera

Author : Donald J. Grout,Hermine Weigel Williams
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 1047 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780231507721

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A Short History of Opera by Donald J. Grout,Hermine Weigel Williams Pdf

When first published in 1947, A Short History of Opera immediately achieved international status as a classic in the field. Now, more than five decades later, this thoroughly revised and expanded fourth edition informs and entertains opera lovers just as its predecessors have. The fourth edition incorporates new scholarship that traces the most important developments in the evolution of musical drama. After surveying anticipations of the operatic form in the lyric theater of the Greeks, medieval dramatic music, and other forerunners, the book reveals the genre's beginnings in the seventeenth century and follows its progress to the present day. A Short History of Opera examines not only the standard performance repertoire, but also works considered important for the genre's development. Its expanded scope investigates opera from Eastern European countries and Finland. The section on twentieth-century opera has been reorganized around national operatic traditions including a chapter devoted solely to opera in the United States, which incorporates material on the American musical and ties between classical opera and popular musical theater. A separate section on Chinese opera is also included. With an extensive multilanguage bibliography, more than one hundred musical examples, and stage illustrations, this authoritative one-volume survey will be invaluable to students and serious opera buffs. New fans will also find it highly accessible and informative. Extremely thorough in its coverage, A Short History of Opera is now more than ever the book to turn to for anyone who wants to know about the history of this art form.

The Clarinet

Author : Jane Ellsworth
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781648250170

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The Clarinet by Jane Ellsworth Pdf

Offers unique perspectives on the clarinet's historical role in various styles, genres, and ensembles, from jazz and ethnic traditions to classical chamber music, concertos, opera, and symphony orchestras.

26 Italian songs and arias

Author : John Glenn Paton
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Cantatas, Secular
ISBN : 0882849360

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26 Italian songs and arias by John Glenn Paton Pdf

Arias sung and loved by the greatest singers of the world are here in fresh, new versions. This edition: draws on original manuscripts and historical first editions, along with recent research of prominent musicologists, to meet a high standard of accuracy and authenticity; enhances your enjoyment of the arias with fascinating background information about their original appearance in cantatas and operas, and about their composers; corrects hundreds of errors -- even incorrect words, notes and composers' names -- which have accumulated as past publishers copied from each others' editions; removes Romantic era misinterpretations and 19th-century piano accompaniments, restoring the clear, bright sound of Baroque music. It will be easier than ever to learn the arias because the use of the International Phonetic Alphabet symbols removes doubts about correct pronunciation. It will be easier to sing the arias with meaning because the original Italian texts are translated into English in three ways: 1. a singable rhymed translation 2. a readable prose translation and 3. a literal translation of each single Italian word for those who are learning the language. - Back cover.

The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music

Author : Don Michael Randel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1048 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674372999

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The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music by Don Michael Randel Pdf

Biographaical dictionary emphisizes classicaland art music; also gives ample attention to the classics as well as Jazz, Blues, rock and pop, and hymns and showtunes across the ages.

A New Chronology of Venetian Opera and Related Genres, 1660-1760

Author : Eleanor Selfridge-Field
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 0804744378

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A New Chronology of Venetian Opera and Related Genres, 1660-1760 by Eleanor Selfridge-Field Pdf

From 1637 to the middle of the eighteenth century, Venice was the world center for operatic activity. No exact chronology of the Venetian stage during this period has previously existed in any language. This reference work, the culmination of two decades of research throughout Europe, provides a secure ordering of 800 operas and 650 related works from the period 1660 to 1760. Derived from thousands of manuscript news-sheets and other unpublished materials, the Chronology provides a wealth of new information on about 1500 works. Each entry in this production-based survey provides not only perfunctory reference information but also a synopsis of the text, eyewitness accounts, and pointers to surviving musical scores. What emerges, in addition to secure dates, is a profusion of new information about events, personalities, patronage, and the response of opera to changing political and social dynamics. Appendixes and supplements provide basic information in Venetian history for music, drama, and theater scholars who are not specialists in Italian studies.

Music for a Mixed Taste

Author : Steven Zohn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190247850

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Music for a Mixed Taste by Steven Zohn Pdf

Georg Philipp Telemann gave us one of the richest legacies of instrumental music from the eighteenth century. Though considered a definitive contribution to the genre during his lifetime, his concertos, sonatas, and suites were then virtually ignored for nearly two centuries following his death. Yet these works are now among the most popular in the baroque repertory. In Music for a Mixed Taste, Steven Zohn considers Telemann's music from stylistic, generic, and cultural perspectives. He investigates the composer's cosmopolitan "mixed taste"--a blending of the French, Italian, English, and Polish national styles-and his imaginative expansion of this concept to embrace mixtures of the old (late baroque) and new (galant) styles. Telemann had an equally remarkable penchant for generic amalgamation, exemplified by his pioneering role in developing hybrid types such as the sonata in concerto style ("Sonate auf Concertenart") and overture-suite with solo instrument ("Concert en ouverture"). Zohn examines the extramusical meanings of Telemann's "characteristic" overture-suites, which bear descriptive texts associating them with literature, medicine, politics, religion, and the natural world, and which acted as vehicles for the composer's keen sense of musical humor. Zohn then explores Telemann's unprecedented self-publishing enterprise at Hamburg, and sheds light on the previously unrecognized borrowing by J.S. Bach from a Telemann concerto. Music for a Mixed Taste further reveals how Telemann's style polonaise generates musical and social meanings through the timeless oppositions of Orient-Occident, urban-rural, and serious-comic.

Gateway to Italian Songs and Arias

Author : John Glenn Paton
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 0739035878

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Gateway to Italian Songs and Arias by John Glenn Paton Pdf

Twenty great composers of Italian art songs from Scarlatti to Puccini are represented in songs that have been chosen for their appeal to young singers. Musical excerpts studied in Gateway to Italian Diction appear as complete scores.

Commitment

Author : Robert Freeman
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798886838282

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Commitment by Robert Freeman Pdf

About the Book Commitment: A Life in the Service of Music is the autobiography of one of the nation’s leading music school deans. Robert Freeman explores the educational innovations that he introduced during his 24 years as Director of the world-renowned Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester). These innovations are vital for the survival of America’s symphony orchestras. No one has had the unique experiences in the domain that Freeman has had throughout his illustrious music career. He also leaves the reader with a message of hope by outlining some intriguing curricular changes that would better meet the educational needs of America’s future musicians. About the Author Robert Freeman (1935-2022), descendant of a family of musicians, was concerned throughout his life about the future of classical music. In the course of leading three major institutions of higher learning in the performing arts (the Eastman School of Music, the New England Conservatory, and the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas in Austin), “Bob” became a much-loved and influential figure nationwide. His devotion to keeping music a vital part of America’s cultural life was matched only by his energy, articulateness, and restless imagination. The book tells, for the first time, how his family background helped prepare him for the tasks he undertook, and how he continuingly adapted to new challenges in the course of an adventurous and fulfilling life and career.