Author : Roberto Pagano
Publisher :
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 14,87 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781576471081
Pagano provides a study of the relationship between composer Alessandro Scarlatti and his son Domenico (also a composer), in the context of seventeenth-century Sicilian culture. He addresses many of the research questions that have persisted in scholarship since Ralph Kirkpatrick's monograph, such as Domenico's role at the Portuguese court, reasons
Author : Carole Franklin Vidali
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 30,22 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780824059422
First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : LUCA DELLA. LIBERA
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 14,92 MB
Release : 2022-06-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781032172255
This book offers an account of the sacred music written by Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) in Rome, a city where the composer lived and worked for many years throughout his career. Using archival research, Luca Della Libera provides an overview of Scarlatti's life and activities in Rome, addresses his connections with the institutions and patrons of the city, and analyses his Roman repertoire in comparison to the sacred music of other contemporary composers, demonstrating its unique characteristics. An appendix includes transcriptions of the archival sources connected with Scarlatti's activity in Rome. The first major publication in English to address the sacred music repertoire of one of the major composers of the Italian Baroque, this book offers new insights into Scarlatti's work and a valuable resource for researchers in musicology and early modern studies.
Author : W. Dean Sutcliffe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 22,94 MB
Release : 2008-08-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 1139441094
W. Dean Sutcliffe investigates one of the greatest yet least understood repertories of Western keyboard music: the 555 keyboard sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti. Scarlatti occupies a position of solitary splendour in musical history. The sources of his style are often obscure and his immediate influence is difficult to discern. Further, the lack of hard documentary evidence has hindered musicological activity. Dr Sutcliffe offers not just a thorough reconsideration of the historical factors that have contributed to Scarlatti's position, but also sustained engagement with the music, offering both individual readings and broader commentary of an unprecedented kind. A principal task of this book is to remove the composer from his critical ghetto (however honourable) and redefine his image. In so doing it will reflect on the historiographical difficulties involved in understanding eighteenth-century musical style.
Author : Alessandro Scarlatti
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 35,22 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Maximus, Marcus Clodius Pupienus, 238
ISBN : 9780674640313
Author : Ralph Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 44,92 MB
Release : 1983-12-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691027081
"A famous harpsichordist's study of the life, times, and works of one of the greatest composers for his instrument."--Cover.
Author : Fabio Zanon
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 45,85 MB
Release : 2012-07-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 1619113066
An exact contemporary of Bach and Handel, Domenico Scarlatti was already a celebrated composer in Italy by the time he moved to Portugal. Later he traveled to Spain, where he worked as a harpsichord instructor for Princess Maria Barbara. The lessons he wrote for her are among the most imaginative and unpredictable pieces from the whole baroque period. His music translates very well to the guitar, an instrument where his style is completely at home. This set of 30 sonatas transcribed by acclaimed guitarist Fabio Zanon includes new transcriptions of all-time favorites and some rarer ones as well.
Author : Denis Arnold
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,19 MB
Release : 1997-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393303605
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is the most up-to-date body of musical knowledge ever gathered together.
Author : Stephen Hough
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 23,89 MB
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 0374721408
A collection of essays on music and life by the famed classical pianist and composer Stephen Hough is one of the world’s leading pianists, winning global acclaim and numerous awards, both for his concerts and his recordings. He is also a writer, composer, and painter, and has been described by The Economist as one of “Twenty Living Polymaths.” Hough writes informally and engagingly about music and the life of a musician, from the broader aspects of what it is to walk out onto a stage or to make a recording, to specialist tips from deep inside the practice room: how to trill, how to pedal, how to practice. He also writes vividly about people he’s known, places he’s traveled to, books he’s read, paintings he’s seen; and he touches on more controversial subjects, such as assisted suicide and abortion. Even religion is there—the possibility of the existence of God, problems with some biblical texts, and the challenges involved in being a gay Catholic. Rough Ideas is an illuminating, constantly surprising introduction to the life and mind of one of our great cultural figures.
Author : Gabriel Banat
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 45,53 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781576471098
Banat, a concert violinist and teacher, describes the life of this virtuoso violinist, who is thought to be the earliest black European composer, born on his father's plantation on Guadeloupe.
