‘CANTATE SPIRITUALI E MORALI’, WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE PAPAL SACRED CANTATA TRADITION FOR CHRISTMAS 1676–1740
| Autor: | Carolyn Gianturco |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
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| Zdroj: | Music and Letters. 73:1-31 |
| ISSN: | 1477-4631 0027-4224 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/ml/73.1.1 |
| Popis: | AMONG the various definitions of the term 'cantata' is that by Se'bastien de Brossard:' 'a large work, where the words are in Italian, varied by Recitatives, by Arias, and by various tempos; generally for solo voice with a Basso Continuo, often with two Violins or more instruments, etc'.2 As is well known, the great majority of cantata texts speak of love, and in the exaggerated, passionate, manneristic manner typical of post-Marino poetry. There are also cantatas which have historical characters who may or may not speak of love.3 Some cantatas, instead, are organized as academic discussions or debates, called accademie.4 While almost all the cantatas, for any number of voices and instruments, are serious in tone, a small number are comic.5 Brossard, however, added other types of cantatas to these: 'When the words are pious, or moral, one calls them Cantate morali o spirituali'. A quick perusal of RISM reveals that, in fact, a goodly number of published works do indeed bear this non-secular indication.6 Since most cantatas-of whatever type-were not published, one cannot determine from only these sources what percentage of the whole |
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