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History of the Oratorio, Vol. 1 : the Oratorio in the Baroque Era /
Howard Smither has written the first definitive work on the history of the oratorio since Arnold Schering published his Geschichte des Oratoriums in 1911. This volume is the first of a four-volume comprehensive study that offers a new synthesis of what is known to date about the oratorio. Volume 1,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
1977.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; I. Introduction; PART I: The Antecedents and Origins of the Oratorio; II. The Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Roman Catholic Reform; Some Antecedents of the Oratorio; The Oratorians and Their Social Context; Antecedents of the Oratorio in Neri's Oratory; A Reappraisal of Some Oratorio Antecedents; III. The Early Baroque: Antecedents and Incunabula of the Oratorio; Antecedents; Anerio's Teatro and Some Incunabula of the Oratorio; PART II: The Oratorio in Italy, Circa 1640--1720; IV. Mid-Century Rome I: The Oratorio Volgare.
- Social, Artistic, and Literary BackgroundMusical Background; The Oratories and Their Music; Examples of the Oratorio Volgare; The Chief Characteristics of the Oratorio Volgare; V. Mid-Century Rome II: Carissimi and the Oratorio Latino; Rome's Latin Oratory and Its Music; Giacomo Carissimi; Some Contemporaries of Carissimi; The Chief Characteristics of the Oratorio Latino; VI. The Later Baroque I: Social Contexts, Patrons, Composers, Poets; Rome; Other Centers; VII. The Later Baroque II: The Libretto and Music; The Libretto; The Music of the Oratorio from the 1660s to the 1680s.
- The Music of the Oratorio from the 1680s to about 1720Conclusion; PART III: The Italian Oratorio Outside Italy; VIII. Vienna; The Oratorio and Sepolcro in Vienna; IX. Paris; Social and Musical Background; Marc-Antoine Charpentier and the Latin Oratorio; Parisian Oratorios After Charpentier; Bibliography.