Basso Continuo in Italy: Sources, Pedagogy and Performance (Musica Incarnata: Pedagogy, Performance and Market, 1) (English and Italian Edition)

ISBN 10: 2503608507 / ISBN 13: 9782503608501

Published by Brepols Pub, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Basso Continuo in Italy: Sources, Pedagogy and Performance (Musica Incarnata: Pedagogy, Performance and Market, 1) (English and Italian Edition)
• Publisher: Brepols Pub
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2503608507
• ISBN 13: 9782503608501
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The 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 Furthermore, a few chapters focus on peculiar issues of accompaniment pedagogy according to unpublished or neglected sources.