The seventeenth century was a period of profound change in the history of music. In this volume Lorenzo Bianconi considers the radical developments of the century as long-lived musical traditions died out and others were created in response to new social functions. This period saw, for example, the flowering of the polyphonic madrigal and its subsequent decline in favour of a new concertato style, the rise of the basso continuo and the growth of purely instrumental composition. Most importantly it saw the rapid rise and persistent growth of a new genre of immeasurable significance: opera. In examining the plurality of coexistent musical styles Lorenzo Bianconi also discusses the socio-historical and cultural aspects of seventeenth-century music history: the opening out towards rational modes of scientific enquiry and theoretical speculation; the social position of the musician in the age of the first theatrical and musical entrepreneurs; the decline of Italian music publishing and the spread of the market to northern Europe. In considering these problems Lorenzo Bianconi presents a fresh picture of musical life in the seventeenth century, taking, like other books from the Italian series Storia della Musica, a broadly contextual approach.
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To modern eyes, a survey of the musical life of Italy during the first two decades of the Seicento reveals a number of innovations, 'inventions' destined (as a knowledge of later seventeenth-century musical history will show) to fall on fertile ground. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
genere concitato, madrigal polyphony, genere rappresentativo, lament aria, pastor regio, cappelle musicali, stile recitativo, ottave rime, polyphonic madrigal, grand motet, falso bordone, lament scene, contrapuntal theory, finta pazza, laudi spirituali, grands motets, madrigal collections, operatic theatre, public opera, basso continuo, dramma per musica, theatrical music, sacred vocal music, operatic life, basso ostinato Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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To modern eyes, a survey of the musical life of Italy during the first two decades of the Seicento reveals a number of innovations, 'inventions' destined (as a knowledge of later seventeenth-century musical history will show) to fall on fertile ground. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
genere concitato, madrigal polyphony, genere rappresentativo, lament aria, pastor regio, cappelle musicali, stile recitativo, ottave rime, polyphonic madrigal, grand motet, falso bordone, lament scene, contrapuntal theory, finta pazza, laudi spirituali, grands motets, madrigal collections, operatic theatre, public opera, basso continuo, dramma per musica, theatrical music, sacred vocal music, operatic life, basso ostinato Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Chapel Royal, Alessandro Scarlatti, Old Testament, Thirty Years War, Cappella Sistina, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Roi Soleil, Cold Genius, Filippo Neri, Giovanni Gabrieli, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Maria Maggiore, Most Serene Infantas, Reinhard Keiser, Virgilio Mazzocchi, Alessandro Stradella, Antonio Maria Abbatini, Claudio Monteverdi, Giovanni Grisostomo, Henry Purcell, Loreto Vittori, Luigi Rossi, Monteverdi's Book, Most Serene Bride, Antonio Cesti New!
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