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Title The Neapolitan Canzone in the early nineteenth century as cultivated in the Passatempi musicali of Guillaume Cottrau / edited by Pasquale Scialò, Francesca Seller, and Anthony R. DelDonna
Published Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2015

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Contents Haunts of an armchair traveler : the variegated world of the letters of Guillaume Cottrau / Massimo Distilo -- Origins, authorship, and new hypotheses about the Passatempi musicali / Pasquale Scialáo -- The role of Neapolitan song in comedic dramaturgy of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Paologiovanni Maione -- After the Golden Age : Considerations on the nature of nineteenth-century Neapolitan theater / Francesco Cotticelli -- Guillaume Cottrau, a French-Neapolitan entrepreneur / Francesca Seller -- Musical traditions and matrices in the Passatempi musicali of Guillaume Cottrau / Raffaele Di Mauro -- Musical instruments in the early nineteenth-century Neapolitan salon / Francesco Nocerino -- Considerations on the Neapolitan language today and at the time of the Passatempi musicali / Giovanni Vitale
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index
Notes English
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Subject Cottrau, Guillaume Louis, 1797-1847. Passatempi musicali.
SUBJECT Passatempi musicali (Cottrau, Guillaume Louis) fast
Subject Songs, Neapolitan -- Italy -- Naples -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Vocal music -- Italy -- Naples -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Music -- Italy -- Naples -- 19th century -- History and criticism
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Voice.
MUSIC -- Lyrics.
MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Vocal.
Music
Songs, Neapolitan
Vocal music
Italy -- Naples
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Scialò, Pasquale.
Seller, Francesca.
DelDonna, Anthony R
LC no. 2015039109
ISBN 1498523072
9781498523073