The Oratorio In Bologna 1650 1730

Author : Victor Crowther
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999-07-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780191584411

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The Oratorio in Bologna 1650-1730 by Victor Crowther Pdf

In the seventeenth century Bologna developed a rich and diverse musical culture through the enterprise of musicians attached to the Basilica of S. Petronio and affiliated to the Accademia de'Filarmonici. Their achievements in the field of instrumental music (sonata, concerto) and festive church music (concerted mass) are well documented, but little of their output in the fields of oratorio, amounting to 300 performances in the period 1659-1730, has been subjected to critical scrutiny. This book relates the genesis and development of oratorio in Bologna to the city's religious, political, and cultural aspirations. The oratorio repertory is surveyed in three historical phases: under Cazzati (1657-74), Colonna (1675-95), and Perti (1696-1730), and eight oratorios by the city's leading composers are analysed in detail. A chronological list of performances is given in the Appendix.

Author : Victor Crowther
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Bologna (Italy)
ISBN : 1383008590

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The Oratorio in Bologna (1650-1730) by Victor Crowther Pdf

Crowther relates the genesis and development of oratorio in Bologna to the city's religious, political, and cultural aspirations. The oratorio repertory is surveyed in three historical phases starting in 1657 and ending in 1730.

Author : Music History and Literature San Francisco Conservatory of Music John Spitzer Chair,Neal Zaslaw Professor of Music Cornell University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 0199719918

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The Birth of the Orchestra : History of an Institution, 1650-1815 by Music History and Literature San Francisco Conservatory of Music John Spitzer Chair,Neal Zaslaw Professor of Music Cornell University Pdf

This is the story of the orchestra, from 16th-century string bands to the "classical" orchestra of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Spitzer and Zaslaw document orchestral organization, instrumentation, social roles, repertories, and performance practices in Europe and the American colonies, concluding around 1800 with the widespread awareness of the orchestra as a central institution in European life.

Author : Craig A. Monson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226534626

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Nuns Behaving Badly by Craig A. Monson Pdf

Witchcraft. Arson. Going AWOL. Some nuns in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy strayed far from the paradigms of monastic life. Cloistered in convents, subjected to stifling hierarchy, repressed, and occasionally persecuted by their male superiors, these women circumvented authority in sometimes extraordinary ways. But tales of their transgressions have long been buried in the Vatican Secret Archive. That is, until now. In Nuns Behaving Badly, Craig A. Monson resurrects forgotten tales and restores to life the long-silent voices of these cloistered heroines. Here we meet nuns who dared speak out about physical assault and sexual impropriety (some real, some imagined). Others were only guilty of misjudgment or defacing valuable artwork that offended their sensibilities. But what unites the women and their stories is the challenges they faced: these were women trying to find their way within the Catholicism of their day and through the strict limits it imposed on them. Monson introduces us to women who were occasionally desperate to flee cloistered life, as when an entire community conspired to torch their convent and be set free. But more often, he shows us nuns just trying to live their lives. When they were crossed—by powerful priests who claimed to know what was best for them—bad behavior could escalate from mere troublemaking to open confrontation. In resurrecting these long-forgotten tales and trials, Monson also draws attention to the predicament of modern religious women, whose “misbehavior”—seeking ordination as priests or refusing to give up their endowments to pay for priestly wrongdoing in their own archdioceses—continues even today. The nuns of early modern Italy, Monson shows, set the standard for religious transgression in their own age—and beyond.

Author : James Michael Floyd,Avery T. Sharp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780429012631

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Choral Music by James Michael Floyd,Avery T. Sharp Pdf

Choral Music: A Research and Information Guide, Third Edition, offers a comprehensive guide to the literature on choral music in the Western tradition. Clearly annotated bibliographic entries guide readers to resources on key topics within choral music, individual choral composers, regional and sacred choral traditions, choral techniques, choral music education, genre studies, and more, providing an essential reference for researchers and practitioners. Covering monographs, bibliographies, selected dissertations, reference works, journals, electronic databases, and websites, this research guide makes it easy to locate relevant sources. Comprehensive indices of authors, titles, and subjects keep the volume user-friendly. The new edition has been brought up to date with entries encompassing the latest scholarship, and updated references and annotations throughout, capturing the continued growth of literature on choral music since the publication of the second edition.

Author : Gregory Barnett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351573344

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Bolognese Instrumental Music, 1660-1710 by Gregory Barnett Pdf

This book, the first of its kind, is a study of Bolognese instrumental music during the height of the city's musical activity in the late seventeenth century. The periodmarked by a rapid expansion of the cappella musicale of the principal city church, San Petronio, by the founding of the Accademia Filarmonica, and by increasingly lavish patronage of musical eventswitnessed the proliferation of repertory for instrumental ensembles. This music not only reveals crucial stages in the development of the sonata and concerto but also recalls the elaborate church rituals and the opulent public and private celebrations in which they figured prominently. Moreover, the late seventeenth century saw the heyday of Bolognese music publishing, whose output of sonatas and related instrumental genres easily surpassed that of the once-dominating Venetian presses. The approach taken here departs from composer- and genre-centered monographs on Italian instrumental music in order to illuminate an array of topics that center on the Bolognese repertory: the social condition of instrumentalist-composers; the acumen of music publishers in the creation of the repertory; the diverse contexts of the instrumental dances; the influence of liturgical traditions on sonata topoi; the impact of psalmodic practice on tonal style; and the innovative climate that led to experiments with scoring and form in the earliest instrumental concertos. In sum, this book not only illustrates the historically significant and defining features of the music, but also links the surviving repertory to the flourishing musical culture in which it was created.

Author : Joseph P. Swain
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781538151624

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Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music by Joseph P. Swain Pdf

Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 500 cross-referenced entries on composers, instruments, cities, and technical terms.

Author : Avery T. Sharp,James Michael Floyd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780415994194

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Choral Music by Avery T. Sharp,James Michael Floyd Pdf

This is an annotated bibliography to books, recordings, videos, and websites on choral music. This book will serve as an excellent tool for librarians, researchers, and scholars in sorting through the massive amount of new material that has appeared since publication of the previous edition.

Author : John Spitzer,Neal Zaslaw
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 0191513237

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The Birth of the Orchestra by John Spitzer,Neal Zaslaw Pdf

This book traces the emergence of the orchestra from 16th-century string bands to the 'classical' orchestra of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and their contemporaries. Ensembles of bowed stringed instruments, several players per part plus continuo and wind instruments, were organized in France in the mid-17th century and then in Rome at the end of the century. The prestige of these ensembles and of the music and performing styles of their leaders, Jean-Baptiste Lully and Arcangelo Corelli, caused them to be imitated elsewhere, until by the late 18th century, the orchestra had become a pan-European phenomenon. Spitzer and Zaslaw review previous accounts of these developments, then proceed to a thoroughgoing documentation and discussion of orchestral organization, instrumentation, and social roles in France, Italy, Germany, England, and the American colonies. They also examine the emergence of orchestra musicians, idiomatic music for orchestras, orchestral performance practices, and the awareness of the orchestra as a central institution in European life.

Author : Lucia Dacome
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780191055805

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Malleable Anatomies by Lucia Dacome Pdf

Malleable Anatomies offers an account of the early stages of the practice of anatomical modelling in mid-eighteenth-century Italy. It investigates the 'mania' for anatomical displays that swept the Italian peninsula, and traces the fashioning of anatomical models as important social, cultural, and political as well as medical tools. Over the course of the eighteenth century, anatomical specimens offered particularly accurate insights into the inner body. Being coloured, soft, malleable, and often life-size, they promised to foster anatomical knowledge for different audiences in a delightful way. But how did anatomical models and preparations inscribe and mediate bodily knowledge? How did they change the way in which anatomical knowledge was created and communicated? And how did they affect the lives of those involved in their production, display, viewing, and handling? Examining the circumstances surrounding the creation and early viewing of anatomical displays in Bologna and Naples, Malleable Anatomies addresses these questions by reconstructing how anatomical modelling developed at the intersection of medical discourse, religious ritual, antiquarian and artistic cultures, and Grand Tour display. While doing so, it investigates the development of anatomical modelling in the context of the diverse worlds of visual and material practices that characterized the representation and display of the body in mid-eighteenth-century Italy. Drawing attention to the artisanal dimension of anatomical practice, and to the role of women as both makers and users of anatomical models, it considers how anatomical specimens lay at the centre of a composite world of social interactions, which led to the fashioning of modellers as anatomical celebrities. Moreover, it examines how anatomical displays transformed the proverbially gruesome practice of anatomy into an enthralling experience that engaged audiences' senses.

Author : Beth Glixon,Jonathan Glixon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195342970

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Inventing the Business of Opera by Beth Glixon,Jonathan Glixon Pdf

Inventing the Business of Opera explores public opera in its infancy, bringing to life the men and women who successfully established the new genre on the stages of Venice during the seventeenth century. All of the components necessary to opera production are highlighted, from the financial backing, to the libretto and the score, to the singers, dancers, the scenery, and the costumes.

Author : Richard Viladesau
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199352692

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The Pathos of the Cross by Richard Viladesau Pdf

The Baroque period was in some senses the beginning of modern Western scientific and intellectual culture-the early budding of the Enlightenment. In the light of a new scientific and historical consciousness, it saw the rise of deism and the critique of traditional forms of Christianity. Secular values and institutions were openly or surreptitiously replacing the structures of traditional Christian society. At the same time, there was also a trend of religious renewal and the reaffirmation of tradition. In Roman Catholicism, the Patristic, medieval, and Tridentine paradigms were subsumed into a powerful Counter-Reformation spirituality, propagated not only in books, treatises, and sermons, but also in music and in the works of what was arguably the last period of great sacred art. It inspired masters like Bernini, Reni, Rubens, Velázquez, Zurbarán, and Van Dyck. In the Protestant traditions, the Reformation movement found affective expression in new forms of music produced by Monteverdi, Scarlatti, Handel, Telemann, and Bach. The title, The Pathos of the Cross, points to a major aspect of the spirituality of this period: a dramatic portrayal of the events of Christ's passion meant to provoke an emotional response from the viewer and listener. Many works of the period retain their emotional pull centuries later, even though the theology they represent has been challenged and frequently rejected. This volume traces the ways in which Roman Catholic and Protestant theologies of the period proclaimed the centrality of the cross of Christ to human salvation. In a parallel movement, it illustrates how musical and artistic works of the period were both inspired and informed by these theologies, and how they moved beyond them in an aesthetic mediation of faith.

Author : Melvin P. Unger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 699 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781538124345

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Historical Dictionary of Choral Music by Melvin P. Unger Pdf

Historical Dictionary of Choral Music, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1,300 cross-referenced entries on composers, conductors, choral ensembles, choral genres, and choral repertoire.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : UVA:X004793850

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The Eighteenth Century by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joseph P. Swain
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781442264632

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Historical Dictionary of Sacred Music by Joseph P. Swain Pdf

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Sacred Music contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and a bibliography. The dictionary section has over 800 cross-referenced entries on major types of music, composers, key religious figures, and specialized positions, genres of composition, technical terms, and instruments.