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Music in seventeenth-century Naples : Francesco Provenzale (1624-1704)
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Music in seventeenth-century Naples : Francesco Provenzale (1624-1704) / Dinko Fabris.
ISBN
1315090856
1351557343
1351557351
9781315090856
9781351557344
9781351557351
0754637212
9780754637219
Published
Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2007.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xx, 310 pages) : illustrations, music
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2023.
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Summary
The most important figure of seventeenth-century Neapolitan music, Francesco Provenzale (1624-1704) spent his long life in the service of a number of Neapolitan conservatories and churches, culminating in his appointment as maestro of the Tesoro di S. Gennaro and the Real Cappella. Provenzale was successful in generating significant profit from a range of musical activities promoted by him with the participation of his pupils and trusted collaborators. The author draws on newly discovered archival documents to reconstruct the career of a musician who became the leader of his musical world, despite his relatively small musical output. The book examines Provenzale's surviving works alongside those of his most important Neapolitan contemporaries (Raimo Di Bartolo, Sabino, Salvatore and Caresana) and pupils (Fago, Greco, Veneziano and many others), revealing both stylistic similarities and differences, particularly in terms of new harmonic practices and the use of Neapolitan language in opera. The author provides both a life and works study of Provenzale and a conspectus of Neapolitan musical life of the seventeenth century which so clearly laid the groundwork for Naples' later status as one of the great musical capitals of Europe.
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-301) and index.
Contents
La città della festa. A visitor's tour through seventeenth-century Naples ; Mapping Neapolitan musical institutions ; Difficult decades
The age of Provenzale. Leading composers and teachers in the age of Provenzale ; Provenzale and his family
The four conservatoires. Teachers and students ; Provenzale in S. Maria di Loreto ; Provenzale in S. Maria della Pieta dei Turchini ; Educational systems
A composer for the church. The Missa defunctorum ; Vespers and other works connected with the Oratorio dei Girolamini ; Two Dialoghi della Passione by Provenzale ; Melodrammi sacri composed for 'li figliuoli' ; La colomba ferita (1670) and other melodrammi sacri
Provenzale and opera in Naples. The beginnings ; Lo schiavo di sua moglie ; Stellidaura vendicante
Chamber and instrumental music. The chamber cantatas and related forms ; Neapolitan instrumental music in the age of Provenzale
Hope and disillusion. In the service of the Fedelissima Città and the Tesoro di S. Gennaro ; The Real Cappella
Conclusion. The Pange lingua and Provenzale's legacy in the eighteenth century ; Provenzale and the economic system ; Catalogue of Provenzale's works.
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