Gregory Barnett

Bolognese Instrumental Music, 1660-1710

Spiritual Comfort, Courtly Delight, and Commercial Triumph

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, the first of its kind, is a study of Bolognese instrumental music during the height of the city's musical activity in the late seventeenth century. The period"marked by a rapid expansion of the cappella musicale of the principal city church, San Petronio, by the founding of the Accademia Filarmonica, and by increasingly lavish patronage of musical events"witnessed the proliferation of repertory for instrumental ensembles. This music not only reveals crucial stages in the development of the sonata and concerto but also recalls the elaborate church rituals and the opulent public and private celebrations in which they figured prominently. Moreover, the late seventeenth century saw the heyday of Bolognese music publishing, whose output of sonatas and related instrumental genres easily surpassed that of the once-dominating Venetian presses. The approach taken here departs from composer- and genre-centered monographs on Italian instrumental music in order to illuminate an array of topics that center on the Bolognese repertory: the social condition of instrumentalist-composers; the acumen of music publishers in the creation of the repertory; the diverse contexts of the instrumental dances; the influence of liturgical traditions on sonata topoi; the impact of psalmodic practice on tonal style; and the innovative climate that led to experiments with scoring and form in the earliest instrumental concertos. In sum, this book not only illustrates the historically significant and defining features of the music, but also links the surviving repertory to the flourishing musical culture in which it was created.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 789g
• ISBN-13: 9780754658719
• ISBN-10: 0754658716
• Artikelnr.: 35669330

Autorenporträt

Gregory Barnett is Assistant Professor of Musicology in The Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Chronicles of instrumentalists and composers
The forms and uses of the sonata da camera
Bologna, Modena, and the place of viruosity
Da chiesa and da camera
Sacred music, musical topoi, and the sonata in church
Tonal style, modal theory, and church tradition
The concerto before the concerto
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.