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Aspects of the Secular Cantata in Late Baroque Italy (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Aspects of the Secular Cantata in Late Baroque Italy (Hardcover, New Ed)
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As shown by the ever-increasing volume of recordings, editions and
performances of the vast repertory of secular cantatas for solo
voice produced, primarily in Italy, in the second half of the
seventeenth century and the first half of the eighteenth century,
this long neglected genre has at last 'come of age'. However,
scholarly interest is currently lagging behind musical practice:
incredibly, there has been no general study of the Baroque cantata
since Eugen Schmitz's handbook of 1914, and although many academic
theses have examined microscopically the cantatas of individual
composers, there has been little opportunity to view these against
the broader canvas of the genre as a whole. The contributors in
this volume choose aspects of the cantata relevant to their special
interests in order to say new things about the works, whether
historical, analytical, bibliographical, discographical or
performance-based. The prime focus is on Italian-born composers
working between 1650 and 1750 (thus not Handel), but the
opportunity is also taken in one chapter (by Graham Sadler) to
compare the French cantata tradition with its Italian parent in
association with a startling new claim regarding the intended
instrumentation. Many key figures are considered, among them Tomaso
Albinoni, Giovanni Bononcini, Giovanni Legrenzi, Benedetto
Marcello, Alessandro Scarlatti, Alessandro Stradella, Leonardo
Vinci and Antonio Vivaldi. The poetic texts of the cantatas, all
too often treated as being of little intrinsic interest, are given
their due weight. Space is also found for discussions of the
history of Baroque solo cantatas on disc and of the realization of
the continuo in cantata arias - a topic more complex and
contentious than may at first be apparent. The book aims to
stimulate interest in, and to win converts to, this genre, which in
its day equalled the instrumental sonata in importance, and in
which more than a few composers invested a major part of their
creativity.
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