The sacred vocal music of Antonio Vivaldi

Rok: 1995
ISBN: 9788822243614
OKCZID: 129522201

Anotace

Although individual sacred vocal compositions by Vivaldi such as the «Gloria» (RV 589) and the «Stabat Mate»r have been part of the general repertoire for over fifty years, their quantity, quality and variety remain under-appreciated. The accident of their late discovery, at a time when Vivaldi’s historical position as the creator of the late-baroque concerto and the prime mover in the «flight from counterpoint» had become a fixed doctrine, has caused them to be unjustly marginalized until recently. The special quality of Vivaldi’s church music is linked to the paradoxical fact that, although a priest, he was not, occupationally speaking, a «church» musician. Some of it resulted from chance opportunities, while other works reveal his desire to be a «universal» composer, to whom no major genre was foreign. This book is the first-ever comprehensive exploration of this sizable corpus of music. Confronting its subject from many angles, it includes biographical, historical, contextual, bibliographical and liturgical information, general and individual analytical and critical discussions of the works, and reflections on their historical position and on aspects of performance practice. Vivaldi’s indebtedness to other composers, highlighted by a detailed examination of the works in his personal collection, is brought out clearly, as is his originality and his success in assimilating into his church music progressive features developed in his secular works. English text.

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