Desperate measures : the life and music of Antonia Padoani Bembo / Claire Fontijn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fontijn, Claire Anne, 1960- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bembo, Antonia, active 1643-1715--Criticism and interpretation.

Bembo, Antonia.

Bembo, Antonia, active 1643-1715.

Composers--France--Biography.

Composers.

Women composers--France--Biography.

Women composers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Forced to leave Venice, Antonia Padoani Bembo, mother of three, fled to Paris and joined glorifying Louis XIV. Her music - opera, love song, cantata, motet - testifies to the magic of her singing voice. This work details the life and music of a woman with talent who thrived within the dictates of society and culture.

Contents:

The life. The girl who sings ; Our Lady of good news

The music. Harmonic productions ; Ties that bind ; The united tastes ; Penitence ; Hercules in love

Postscript : sunset.

Contents of compact disc: Produzioni armoniche, no. 15, Clizia amante del sole

Produzioni armoniche, no. 16, Habbi pieta di me

Produzioni armoniche, no. 2, Al re

Produzioni armoniche, no. 6, Lamento della Vergine

Produzioni armoniche, no. 30, Passan veloci l'ore

Produzioni armoniche, no. 33, Anima perfida

Produzioni armoniche, no. 27, Mi consolo, non son solo

Produzioni armoniche, no. 32, M'ingannasti in verita

Les sept pseaumes de David, Psalm 101, Seigneur qui voit mes pleurs

L'Ercole amante, II, vi, Pasithea, Mormorate o fiumicelli

Texts and translations for tracks 1-10.

Notes:

Includes sound disc.

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-028562-1

0-19-772780-8

1-280-83433-1

0-19-535055-3

1-4294-3869-X

OCLC:

781259820