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Book Benigno Zerafa  1726 1804  and the Neapolitan Galant Style

Download or read book Benigno Zerafa 1726 1804 and the Neapolitan Galant Style written by Frederick Aquilina and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first-ever study of Malta's major eighteenth-century composer, Benigno Zerafa (1726 - 1804), a specialist in sacred music composition. This book is the first-ever study of Malta's major eighteenth-century composer, Benigno Zerafa (1726-1804), a specialist in sacred music composition. Zerafa's large-scale and small-scale vocal and choral works, mostly written during his long service as musical director at the Cathedral of Mdina, have been winning increased recognition in recent years. In addition to describing and analysing this extensive corpus, the book gives an account of Zerafa's sometimes eventful career against the wider background of the rich musical and cultural life in Malta, especial attention being paid to its strong links with Italy, and particularly Naples, where Zerafa was a student for six years. Itexamines in detail the complex relationship of music to Catholic liturgy and investigates the distinctive characteristics of the musical style, intermediate between baroque and classical, in which Zerafa was trained and always composed: one that today is commonly labelled "galant". Well stocked with music examples, the book makes copious reference to Italian and Maltese composers from Zerafa's time and to modern analytical studies of Italian music from the middle decades of the eighteenth century, thereby offering a useful general commentary on the galant period. Its central aim, however, is to stimulate further interest in, and revival of, Zerafa's music. To this end the book contains a complete work-list with supplementary indexes. Scholars and students of eighteenth-century music, in particular sacred music, the galant style and Italian music, will find it invaluable. FREDERICK AQUILINAis Senior Lecturer in Music Studies at the University of Malta.

Book International Music and Drama

Download or read book International Music and Drama written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Il Pastor Fido

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  • Author : Giovanni Battista Guarini
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1750
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 538 pages

Download or read book Il Pastor Fido written by Giovanni Battista Guarini and published by . This book was released on 1750 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800

Download or read book Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800 written by Library of Congress. Music Division and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Studies in Music  Words  and Imagery in Early Modern Europe

Download or read book Studies in Music Words and Imagery in Early Modern Europe written by Barbara Russano Hanning and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Characterized by an interdisciplinary approach, these essays highlight the relationship between music and poetry in Italian secular works of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, examine the role of images in shedding light on the cultural context in which these and other works came into being (music iconography), and explore the binaries and similarities of the arts in this period. Insights about early opera are complemented by discussions of accompanied solo song, or monody, both genres new to Italian music at the turn of the seventeenth century. Many chapters focus on specific images, ranging from the figure of Apollo and his significance as the earliest operatic protagonist, to an early eighteenth-century representation of a salon concert and its “ensemblisation” of events that likely occurred serially. Others include discussions and analyses of musical poetics, from Tasso’s influence on the Italian madrigal to Rinuccini’s authorship of the earliest opera libretti. Another focuses on history while narrating the circumstances under which opera came into being in late Renaissance Florence. Addressed in large measure to teachers and students, Studies in Music, Words, and Imagery in Early Modern Europe presents a range of subjects that broaden our perspective on the era. Certain essays take a specifically pedagogical approach, while others are more apt to interest music historians or those familiar with Italian versification. All are presented with a view toward making more accessible essays that do not fit neatly into one subject area but cross boundary lines between music, words, and images.

Book The Creation of a Genre

Download or read book The Creation of a Genre written by Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The cunning loverr

Download or read book The cunning loverr written by Manuel García and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Il Poema Tartaro

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  • Author :
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  • Release : 1842
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book Il Poema Tartaro written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800

Download or read book Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800 written by Oscar George Theodore Sonneck and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Il Poema Tartaro Di G  B  Casti

Download or read book Il Poema Tartaro Di G B Casti written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Novella of Giulia Camposanpiero and Tesibaldo Vitaliani

Download or read book Novella of Giulia Camposanpiero and Tesibaldo Vitaliani written by Giulia Bigolina and published by Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS). This book was released on 2004 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Giulia Bigolina has been nearly forgotten by modern literary scholars. She was a married woman of the minor nobility who lived in Padua, in Venetian territory, ca. 1516-1569. Although none of her works were published during her lifetime, she did gain considerable local renown as a writer of novellas and other works of prose fiction dealing with love, a literary field to which Italian women of the early modern period almost never contributed because of the risk of public scandal. This critical edition brings together the Italian texts of both of Bigolina's known surviving works, 'Urania: the story of a young woman's love' and her 'Novella of Giulia Camposanpiero and Thesibaldo Vitaliani,' providing as well English translations in facing-page format. The notes and extensive introduction contain the fruits of Christopher Nissen's many years of original research on this author in the libraries of Italy and France. The notes to this edition include descriptions of all of Bigolina's surviving manuscripts, along with details of their textual characteristics and problems of interpretation. All of Bigolina's historical and mythological references are also explained in the notes. This edition aims to make the complete surviving works of this little known but highly significant author available to a wide audience of scholars for the first time, both in English and the original Italian." --

Book Book Bulletin

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  • Author : Chicago Public Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1926
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 652 pages

Download or read book Book Bulletin written by Chicago Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Voices of Carlo Levi  Le Voci Di Carlo Levi

Download or read book The Voices of Carlo Levi Le Voci Di Carlo Levi written by Joseph Farrell and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a writer, Carlo Levi has had the misfortune to be known as the author of one book, Christ Stopped at Eboli, the account of his years of internal banishment by the Fascist authorities to a remote village in the south of Italy. That book was recognised as a masterpiece of anti-Fascist literature and as a sensitive investigation of the way of life of a people at the margins of European civilisation. It enjoyed enormous success in the post-war period not only in Italy but also in Britain and the USA, and has been continuously in print since its first publication. However, Levi was also a painter of some repute, a novelist, a journalist, a critic of art and society, a political commentator, and above all, a wholly idiosyncratic travel writer whose reports on the countries and regions he visited, including Sicily, Sardinia, Germany, the USSR and India, were also reflections on Italy. This book attempts to assess the totality of Levi's achievement. Come scrittore, Carlo Levi ha avuto la sfortuna di essere celebrato come autore di un libro solo, Cristo si è fermato ad Eboli, la narrativa dei suoi anni di confino nel Mezzogiorno sotto il regime fascista. Sin dal momento della sua pubblicazione nel primo dopoguerra, questo libro è stato riconosciuto come capolavoro della letteratura anti-fascista e come indagine penetrante della cultura di un popolo ai margini della civiltà europea. Comunque, Levi fu anche pittore di grande talento, romanziere, critico d'arte, critico della società, commentatore politico e viaggiatore-scrittore di libri di viaggi sui generis. I suoi articoli, che poi divennero libri, sui paesi e sulle regioni che visitò - la Sicilia, la Sardegna, la Germania e l'India - si rivelarono anche riflessioni sulla condizione dell'Italia. Questa raccolta di saggi è una rivalutazione della totalità delle opere di Carlo Levi.

Book The Politicized Muse

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  • Author : Anthony M. Cummings
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2015-03-08
  • ISBN : 1400872731
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book The Politicized Muse written by Anthony M. Cummings and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the years between the restoration of the Medici to Florence and the election of Cosimo I, the Medici family sponsored a series of splendid public festivals, reconstructed here by Anthony M. Cummings. Cummings has utilized unexpectedly rich sources of information about the musical life of the time in contemporary narrative accounts of these occasions—histories, diaries, and family memoirs. In this interdisciplinary work, he explains how the festivals combined music with art and literature to convey political meanings to Florentine observers. As analyzed by Cummings, the festivals document the political transformation of the city in the crucial era that witnessed the end of the Florentine republic and the beginnings of the Medici principate. This book will interest all students of the life and institutions of sixteenth-century Florence and of the Medici family. In addition, the author furnishes new evidence about the contexts for musical performances in early modern Europe. By describing such contexts, he ascertains much about how music was performed and how it sounded in this period of music history and shows that the modes of musical expression were more varied than is suggested by the relatively few surviving examples of actual pieces of music. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book Il Pirata

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  • Author : Vincenzo Bellini
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1844
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 66 pages

Download or read book Il Pirata written by Vincenzo Bellini and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Il pirata

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  • Author : Felice Romani
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  • Release : 1832
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 84 pages

Download or read book Il pirata written by Felice Romani and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: