Con che soavità : studies in Italian opera, song, and dance, 1580-1740 / edited by Iain Fenlon and Tim Carter.

Other author Fenlon, Iain, editor.
Other author Carter, Tim, 1954- editor.
Other author Fortune, Nigel, dedicatee.
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Descriptionviii, 336 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents Some images of monody in the early Baroque / Barbara Russano Hanning -- The origins of the seventeenth-century staged Ballo / Iain Fenlon -- D'India the peripatetic / Glenn Watkins -- Lamenti recitativi da camera / William V. Porter -- Aspects of aria / F.W. Sternfeld -- Resemblance and representation: towards a new aesthetic in the music of Monteverdi / Tim Carter -- 'Aria' in the madrigals of Giovanni Rovetta / John Whenham -- On the origins of an operatic topos: the mad-scene / Paolo Fabbri -- Steffani's solo cantatas / Colin Timms -- Tomaso Albinoni's Pimpinone and the comic intermezzo / Michael Talbot -- The Neapolitans in Venice / Reinhard Strohm -- Vivaldi and the Pasticcio: text and music in Tamerlano / Eric Cross -- The making of Alcina / Winton Dean.
Abstract This collection of essays by European, British, and American musicologists seeks to consolidate the recent growth of interest in seventeenth century studies. It includes discussions of leading composers, repertories, geographical issues, institutional contexts, and iconography.
General note"Dedicated to Nigel Fortune on the occasion of his seventieth birthday"--Preface.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 94049109
ISBN0198163703 (acid-free paper)
ISBN9780198163701 (acid-free paper)