| Contents |
Music in Venice. Musical academies in eighteenth-century Venice (Note d'archivio per la storia musicale n.s. 2, Venice, 1984) -- Tenors and basses at the Venetian Ospedali (Acta musicologica 66, Kassel, 1994) -- Vivaldi. Vivaldi and the Empire (Informazioni e studi vivaldiani 8, Milan, 1987) -- Vivaldi's serenatas: long cantatas or short operas? (Antonio Vivaldi: Teatro musicale, cultura e società, ed. Bianconi and G. Morelli, Florence, 1982) -- Vivaldi's 'Manchester' sonatas (Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association 104, London, 1977-78) -- Vivaldi's conch concerto (Informazioni e studi vivaldiani 5, Milan, 1984) -- A Vivaldi sonata with obbligato organ in Dresden (The Organ Yearbook 12, Buren, 1981) -- Lingua romana in bocca veneziana: Vivaldi, Corelli and the Roman School (Studi corelliani, IV: Atti del quarto congresso internazionale (Fusignano, 4-7 settembre 1986), ed. P. Petrobelli and G. Staffieri, Florence, 1990) -- Vivaldi and Rome: observations and hypotheses (Journal of the Royal Musician Association 113, Oxford, 1988) -- Vivaldi's sacred vocal music: the three periods (Nuovi studi vivaldiani: edizione e cronologia critica delle opere, ed. A. Fanna and G. Morelli, Florence, 1988) -- New light on Vivaldi's Stabat Mater (Informazioni e studi vivaldiani 13, Milan, 1992) -- Other Venetian composers. The function and character of the instrumental ritornello in the solo cantatas of Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751) (I quaderni della Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano nos. 19-20, Milan, 1990) -- Albinoni's oboe concertos (The consort 29, Hull, 1973) -- The effects of music: Benedetto Marcello's cantata, Il Timoteo (Benedetto Marcello: la sua opera e il suo tempo. Atti del convegno internazionale (Venezia, 15-17 dicembre 1986), ed. C. Madricardo and F. Rossi, Florence, 1988) -- The Marcian motets of Benedetto Vinaccesi (Giovanni Legrenzi e la cappella ducale di San Marco: Atti dei convegni internazionali di studi (Venezia, 24-26 maggio 1990; Clusone, 14-16 settembre 1990), ed. F. Passadore and F. Rossi, Florence, 1994) -- The Taiheg, the Pira and other curiosities of Benedetto Vinaccesi's Suonate da camera a tre, op. 1 (Music and Letters 75, Oxford, 1994). |
| Abstract |
This book contains sixteen essays on Venetian music in its last great period, stretching from the second half of the 17th century to the fall of the Republic in 1797. Two essays deal with musical institutions (academies and conservatories), nine with the life and works of Antonio Vivaldi, and five with contemporaries of Vivaldi active in Venice (Albinoni, Marcello, Vinaccesi). A substantial supplementary chapter updates, and where necessary revises, the facts and arguments of the original essays, which collectively date from the years 1973-1995. All the essays are written in English, but many originally appeared in Italian journals and conference proceedings that are hard for English-speaking readers to obtain. The volume is carefully indexed, enabling the reader easily to make connections between the essays. |
