The Forms of Cavalli's Arias: le vende per misteri e son canzoni: 2 (musicoillogic) - Softcover

Dalla Vecchia, Francesco

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1699854920 ISBN 13: 9781699854921

Publisher: Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

The most complete and detailed study on the poetical and musical forms of Francesco Cavalli (Crema, 1602-Venice, 1676), who is considered the most representative composer of seventeenth-century Venetian operas. Opera, as a popular genre, was practically invented in Venice when Cavalli was the major composer of the city (St. Mark Kapellmeister). In fact, Cavalli’s 27 extant operas constitute one third of the operas performed in Venice in the first three decades of the history of opera. The style of early operas different significantly from that of traditional repertory established later and therefore the musical features of the arias are sometimes hard to classify. Dalla Vecchia (Musicology PhD) withdrew from his knowledge of Italian poetry and music theory to devise a system to identify the formal elements applied in shaping these operatic songs, assessed the conventionality of the artist’s choices, and ultimately provided an indispensable handbook for the study of vocal music in the seventeenth century.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1699854920
• ISBN 13: 9781699854921
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 218