Anthony R Deldonna

Instrumental Music in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples

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Produktbeschreibung

Demonstrates the cultivation and interest in instrumental genres by Neapolitan musicians and its significant stature at the royal court.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 178mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 705g
• ISBN-13: 9781108477611
• ISBN-10: 1108477615
• Artikelnr.: 59637859

Autorenporträt

Anthony R. DelDonna, Ph.D. is Professor of Musicology and Director of the Music Program at Georgetown University, Washington DC. His research focuses on stage drama, instrumental music, archival studies, and ballet in early modern Italy and appears in The Journal of Musicology, Acta Musicologica, Quaderni d'Italianistica, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Early Music, Eighteenth-Century Music, Recercare, and Studi musicali. DelDonna is the author of the monograph Opera, Theatrical Culture and Society in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples (2012) and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Opera with Pierpaolo Polzonetti (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
List of music examples
List of tables
Acknowledgements
1. Naples on the grand tour and within the historical imagination
2. The Neapolitan conservatories: identity, formation, operation
3. Pedagogical training in the conservatories
4. Maria Carolina as cultural patron and icon
5. Music for the court of Naples
6. Genre, style, and transnational currents
7. Maestri e operisti: Paisiello
8. Maestri e operisti: Cimarosa and Guglielmi
9. Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index.