| Series |
Sources of music and their interpretation, Duke studies in music
Sources of music and their interpretation. ^A256462
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| Contents |
An introduction to Frescobaldi / Alexander Silbiger -- Frescobaldi and his patrons. Girolamo Frescobaldi: new biographical information / Frederick Hammond -- A Ritratto of Frescobaldi: some problems of biographical methodology / Blaudio Annibaldi -- "Licenza alla Mantovna": Frescobaldi and the recruitment of musicians for Mantua, 1612-15 / Susan Parisi -- Predecessors, contemporaries, and followers. The anonymous ricercars of the Bourdeney codex / Anthony Newcomb -- The vocal compositions of Ercole Pasquini / W. Richard Shindle -- Frescobaldi and the lute and Chitarrone toccatas of "Il tedesco della Tiorba" / Victor Coelho -- Frescobaldi's Arie and the musical circle around cardinal Montalto / John Walter Hill -- On Artificioso compositions at the time of Frescobaldi / Sergio Durante -- The influence and tradition of Frescobaldi's works in the transalpine countries / Friedrich W. Riedel -- Frescobaldi's instrumental music: compositional procedures and rhetoric. The origins of Frescobaldi's variation canzonas reappraised / James Ludwig -- Frescobaldi's reworked ensemble canzonas / John Harper -- The rhetorical aspect of Frescobaldi's musical language / Emilia Fadini -- Performance practices and original performance conditions. Tempo relationships in Frescobaldi's Primo Libro di Capricci / Etienne Darbellay -- Pier Francesco Valentini on tactus and proportion / Margaret Murata -- The liturgical use of the organ in seventeenth-century Italy: new documents, new hypotheses / James H. Moore -- Bibliography of Frescobaldi's printed collections, with key to short titles. |
| Abstract |
Girolamo Frescobaldi occupies a special place in the history of music as the first significant European composer who concentrated his major creative efforts into the realm of instrumental music. In this collection of papers based on the Quadricentennial Frescobaldi Studies Conference, sixteen American and European specialists examine important aspects of the life and works of this composer and of his role in the creation of a new musical language of the Baroque. |
| General note | Collection of papers based on the Quadricentennial Frescobaldi Conference, Madison, Wis., 1983. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-390) and index. |
| LCCN | 86032862 |
| ISBN | 0822307111 |
