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Summary:

This volume explores the long-lasting phenomenon of basso continuo in the Italian peninsula, from its origins, i.e. from the "regole per suonare sopra il basso" which collects and develops the contrappunto alla mente's legacy, up to the late partimento pedagogy. In addition to a bibliographic update, the volume presents case studies providing the reader with new information on performative contexts and performance practice between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, and shedding new lights on sacred and secular genres and repertoires cultivated in churches, theatres, academies, noble chambers and domestic environments. Particular attention is given to the relationship between counterpoint, improvisation and instrumentation, to the analysis of primary sources in relation to book formats and the type of notation chosen to convey the accompaniment. Furthermore, a few chapters focus on peculiar issues of accompaniment pedagogy according to unpublished or neglected sources.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction / Marcello Mazzetti
• Performance practice issues : stylistic features and historical contexts. Realising Arianna : the problematic accompaniments of Claudio Monteverdi's «"Lamento d'Arianna" / Naomi Matsumoto ; La pratica del basso continuo a S. Luigi dei Francesi a Roma nel Seicento / Galliano Ciliberti ; Antonio Vivaldi's use of figures: "Per li coglioni" and other examples / Giulia Nuti
• Sources, formats, and accompaniment layout : stylistic features and historical contexts. Basso continuo : the beginnings in Italy / Augusta Campagne ; Between practice and print : performing Palestrina's "Missarum liber quartus" (1582) with Alessandro Nuvoloni's "basso prencipale co'l soprano" (1610) / Thomas Neal ; Fossil traces of vanished voices : the basso continuo part and the reconstruction ofiIncomplete polyphony / Marina Toffetti ; Figured bass and figured melody :printed figures in Italian continuo sources and idiosyncratic continuo notation practices as found in three 17th century Italian prints / Marcos Krieger
• The accompaniment between pedagogy and performance. The partimenti of Rocco Greco : reconstructing the pedagogical tradition for the early violoncello / Catherine Bahn ; Giovanna Barbati ; The teaching of counterpoint and partimento in the school of Francesco Feo / Peter van Tour ; Partimento teaching at the convent of Santi Marcellino e Festo in Naples : new early eighteenth-century sources of realisations of partimenti by Francesco Durante (c. 1707-1715) / Eric Boaro ; Vincenzo Bellini's "Studio del contrappunto" notebook : an investigation of a new source of partimento and counterpoint in early nineteenth-century Italy / Marco Pollaci
• Fundamental issues : counterpoint, improvisation and instrumentation. Basso continuo e contrappunto nelle fonti seicentesche : un moderno approccio alla didattica musicale / Edoardo Bellotti ; "Contrapunto alla mente" or basso continuo? Agostino Agazzari and his "Sonare sopra'l basso" / Livio Ticli
• Abstracts and biographies
• Index of names.

Contributors:

Mazzetti, Marcello , editor

Languages:

English
Italian

Language Notes:

English and Italian texts.

Related Series:

Musica incarnata; v. 1

Subjects:

Continuo — Italy — History — 16th century

Continuo — Italy — History — 17th century

Continuo — Italy — History — 18th century

Performance practice (Music) — Italy — History — 16th century

Performance practice (Music) — Italy — History — 17th century

Performance practice (Music) — Italy — History — 18th century

1500-1799

Performance practice (Music)

Continuo

Italy

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xxx, 345 pages : illustrations, music ; 27 cm.

Physical Characteristics:

map; music; illustration

Call Numbers:

ML442 .B37 2023

ISBNs:

9782503608501
2503608507

OCLC Numbers:

1415812708