Neapolitan Canzone in the Early Nineteenth Century as Cultivated in the Passatempi musicali of Guillaume Cottrau (eBook)

Anthony R. DelDonna, Pasquale Scialo, Francesca Seller (Herausgeber)

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2015
158 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-2307-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This collection examines the history of the Canzona Napoletana and its emergence as a leading genre of popular music in the early nineteenth century. Featuring original research by leading scholars in the fields of ethnomusicology, historical musicology, and theater, this is the first collection of essays in the English language to address the topic.

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This volume is a multi-disciplinary study of the Neapolitan tradition of nineteenth-century song or ';Canzona napoletana.' It is based on primary (original music manuscripts) and secondary (correspondence, diaries, and varied historical materials) sources recovered from Neapolitan archives, libraries, and private collections. The book takes as its focus the figure of Guillaume Cottrau (1797-1847), a musician and publisher who left a significant breadth of original songs and arrangements issued in the song collection and series entitled Passatempi musicali. Cottrau was a cultural auteur, who integrated his diverse activities as editor, folklorist, and patron of salon music and musicians (including the commissioning of original works and adaptations) to establish a tradition of Neapolitan song. This repertory was disseminated throughout Europe and ultimately the United States to great acclaim through the publication of the Passatempi musicali. The songs presented in the Passatempi musicali remain within the international repertory affiliated with Neapolitan song, including ';Fenesta vascia,' ';Lo guarracino,' ';Cannetella,' and many others. They are, moreover, closely linked to the historical, cultural and linguistic identity of Naples and the Neapolitan diaspora. This volume is the first of its kind in the English language and offers original, unpublished research about the endeavors of Cottrau, the contemporary cultural environs, the artists and their music that established the international fame of the Neapolitan canzona.

Autor

Pasquale Scialò teaches at the Conservatory of Salerno and the University of Naples. Francesca Seller is professor of musicology at the Conservatory of Salerno and scholar at the l’Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici in Naples.Anthony R. DelDonna is associate professor of musicology at Georgetown University.

Inhalt

List of figures and tablesAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPasquale Scialò, Francesca Seller, and Anthony R. DelDonna1. Haunts of an armchair traveler: the variegated world of the letters of Guillaume CottrauMassimo Distilo2. Origins, authorship, and new hypotheses about the Passatempi musicaliPasquale Scialò3. The role of Neapolitan song in comedic dramaturgy of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuriesPaologiovanni Maione4. After the Golden Age: considerations on the nature of nineteenth-century Neapolitan theaterFrancesco Cotticelli5. Guillaume Cottrau, a French-Neapolitan entrepreneurFrancesca Seller6. Musical traditions and matrices in the Passatempi musicali of Guillaume CottrauRaffaele Di Mauro7. Musical instruments in the early nineteenth-century Neapolitan salonFrancesco Nocerino8. Considerations on the Neapolitan language today and at the time of the Passatempi musicali by Guillaume CottreauGiovanni VitaleBibliographyAbout the contributors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.12.2015
• Co-Autor: Francesco Cotticelli, Massimo Distilo, Paologiovanni Maione, Raffaele Di Mauro, Francesco Nocerino, Giovanni Vitale
• Zusatzinfo: 14 Illustrations including: - 10 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 4 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Schlagworte: 19th century • 19th century opera • Drama • Guillaume Cottrau • Italian • Italy • Musical • Naples • Neapolitan canzona • Neapolitan culture • Neapolitan opera • Neapolitan song • Passatempi musicali
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-2307-2 / 1498523072
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-2307-3 / 9781498523073