Download or read book Of Ariosto s Legacy in Seventeenth Century Italian Musical Drama written by Ė. M. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Index to Theses with Abstracts Accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland and the Council for National Academic Awards written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Staging of Musical Drama in Italy at the Turn of Seventeenth Century written by Raluca Marinescu and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeenth-century musical drama is a product of the humanist preoccupation with the revival of the cultural ideals of the antiquity. Italian critics of the sixteenth century, after studying the classical texts of Aristotle and Plato, had already launched theories according to which music was present in the theatrical performances of the antiquity. Some theorists, like Girolamo Mei and Francesco Patrizzi, promoted the idea that tragedies were sung throughout, while others, like Giovanni Trissino, Giraldi Cinthio, and Orazio Toscanella, more accurately considered that only certain parts of the plays were sung. The following work offers a general view of the performance practice of musical drama at the turn of the seventeenth century in Italy. There are few works dedicated to the study of stage matters in the intermedii productions of the century. Information on such performances is scarce, with most of the music and even parts of the libretti being lost. For this reason, in order to offer a more complete image of early musical drama, it is necessary to study the history of theatrical performance practice of the time. The primary sources quoted throughout this work include letters, programs, and descriptions of theatrical events. The most valuable primary sources are, however, the theatrical treatises of the time: Quattro dialoghi in materia di rappresentazioni sceniche (1565) by Leone de' Sommi, professional director at the court of Mantua; Della poesia rappresentativa e del modo di rappresentare le favole sceniche (1598) by Angelo Ingegneri, stage director; and II Corago o vero alcune osservazioni per mettere ben in scena le composizioni drammatiche (1628), an anonymous treatise by a professional director in the early baroque theater. Several such sources have been translated into English, completely or at least in part, by Carol MacClintock, Allardyce Nicoll, Claude Palisca, Denis Stevens, and Oliver Strunk. Other materials have been published by editors such as Alessandro d'Ancona, Angelo Solerti, Paolo Fabbri, and Angelo Pompilio. There are, however, numerous other primary sources that have not been translated into English and offer important details of performance practice. Numerous descriptions of weddings and other court events celebrated through theatrical performances exist only in Italian. They present details regarding set design, hall decorations, lighting, theater machines, costumes, and special effects that allow us to form a better idea of the performance practice of the time. Throughout the work I have introduced numerous quotes and excerpts from these writings in order to convey a more veridical image of the seventeenth-century performances. This study aims to display elements taken from such documents in order to offer a coherent image of performance practice at the time when opera started to emerge as a new genre. For a better understanding of the process this work includes studies of theatrical design, sets, and machinery, costumes and lighting, and stage direction in the early Italian theater.
Download or read book Opera in Seventeenth Century Venice written by Ellen Rosand and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this elegantly constructed study of the early decades of public opera, the conflicts and cooperation of poets, composers, managers, designers, and singers—producing the art form that was soon to sweep the world and that has been dominant ever since—are revealed in their first freshness."—Andrew Porter "This will be a standard work on the subject of the rise of Venetian opera for decades. Rosand has provided a decisive contribution to the reshaping of the entire subject. . . . She offers a profoundly new view of baroque opera based on a solid documentary and historical-critical foundation. The treatment of the artistic self-consciousness and professional activities of the librettists, impresarios, singers, and composers is exemplary, as is the examination of their reciprocal relations. This work will have a positive effect not only on studies of 17th-century, but on the history of opera in general."—Lorenzo Bianconi
Download or read book A History of Italian Theatre written by Joseph Farrell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-16 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Italian theatre from its origins to the the time of this book's publication in 2006. The text discusses the impact of all the elements and figures integral to the collaborative process of theatre-making. The distinctive nature of Italian theatre is expressed in the individual chapters by highly regarded international scholars.
Download or read book The Canadian Music Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Musical Humanism and Its Legacy written by Nancy Kovaleff Baker and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ariosto Opera and the 17th Century written by Edward Milton Anderson and published by Ad Ilissum. This book was released on 2017 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The success of Orlando furioso in Italian musical theatre is vast and complex. This book examines the main phases of the circulation and influence of Orlando furioso on the seventeenth-century music scene by reconstructing an overall historical and critical profile, but also through the recovery and philologically verified transcription of about forty dramatic texts derived from Ariosto's main narrative currents.
Download or read book Il palazzo incantato written by Giulio Rospigliosi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giulio Rospigliosi (1600-1669), che fu eletto papa nel 1667 con il nome di Clemente IX, è stato per un trentennio il protagonista del teatro musicale romano. Il "Palazzo incantato", rappresentato in Palazzo Barberini a Roma nel 1642, deriva il tema da un celeberrimo episodio dell'"Orlando furioso" di Ludovico Ariosto (il palazzo del mago Atlante) e lo sviluppa in una sarabanda di intrighi amorosi, di inseguimenti, di equivoci, di bisticci, con arie, canzoni, giochi, indovinelli, danze, finché il magico palazzo non si dissolve in un mirabolante spettacolo pirotecnico.
Download or read book Milton s Italy written by Catherine Martin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book joins a growing trend toward transnational literary studies and revives a venerable tradition of Anglo-Italian scholarship centering on John Milton. Correcting misperceptions that have diminished the international dimensions of his life and work, it broadly surveys Milton’s Italianate studies, travels, poetics, politics, and religious convictions. While his debts to Machiavelli and other classical republicans are often noted, few contemporary critics have explored the Italian sources of his anti-papal, anti-episcopal, and anti-formalist religious outlook. Relying on Milton’s own testimony, this book explores its roots in Dante, Petrarch, Ariosto, and that great "Venetian enemy of the pope," Paolo Sarpi, thereby correcting a recent tendency to make native English contexts dominate his development. This tendency is partly due to a mistaken belief that Italy was in steep decline during and after Milton’s travels of 1638-1639, the period immediately before he produced his prose critiques of the English Church, its canon law, and its censorship. Yet these were also fundamentally "Italian" issues that he skillfully adapted to meet contemporary English needs, a practice enabled by his extraordinarily positive experience of the Italian language, cities, academies, and music, the latter of which ultimately influenced Milton’s "operatic" drama, Samson Agonistes. Besides republicanism and theology (radical doctrines of free grace and free will), equally strong influences treated here include Italian Neoplatonism, cosmology, and romance epic. By making these traditions his own, Milton became what John Steadman once described as an "Italianate Englishman" whose classical "literary tastes and critical orientation...were...to a considerable extent" molded by Italian critics (1976), a view that is fully credited and updated here.
Download or read book The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Liturgy to Martinu written by Stanley Sadie and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Renaissance Transactions written by Valeria Finucci and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited collection discusses the first historically important debate on what constitutes modern literature, which focused on two 16th century works: ORLANDO FURIOSO and GERUSALEMME LIBERATA.
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Download or read book Instrumentalists and Renaissance Culture 1420 1600 written by Victor Coelho and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first in-depth study in any language exploring the vast cultural range of instrumental music during the Renaissance.
Download or read book Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque written by Evonne Levy and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of some two centuries following the conquests and consolidations of Spanish rule in the Americas during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries—the period designated as the Baroque—new cultural forms sprang from the cross-fertilization of Spanish, Amerindian, and African traditions. This dynamism of motion, relocation, and mutation changed things not only in Spanish America, but also in Spain, creating a transatlantic Hispanic world with new understandings of personhood, place, foodstuffs, music, animals, ownership, money and objects of value, beauty, human nature, divinity and the sacred, cultural proclivities—a whole lexikon of things in motion, variation, and relation to one another. Featuring the most creative thinking by the foremost scholars across a number of disciplines, the Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque is a uniquely wide-ranging and sustained exploration of the profound cultural transfers and transformations that define the transatlantic Spanish world in the Baroque era. Pairs of authors—one treating the peninsular Spanish kingdoms, the other those of the Americas—provocatively investigate over forty key concepts, ranging from material objects to metaphysical notions. Illuminating difference as much as complementarity, departure as much as continuity, the book captures a dynamic universe of meanings in the various midst of its own re-creations. The Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque joins leading work in a number of intersecting fields and will fire new research—it is the indispensible starting point for all serious scholars of the early modern Spanish world.
