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Il trionfo della Poesia, e della Musica / Benedetto Marcello ; edited by Michael Burden.
- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Marcello, Benedetto, 1686-1739, composer, librettist.
- Series:
- Recent researches in the music of the Baroque Era ; 191.
- Recent researches in Music Online. 2577-4573.
- Recent researches in the music of the Baroque Era ; 191
- Recent researches in Music Online, 2577-4573
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Oratorios--Scores.
- Oratorios.
- Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices) with string orchestra--Scores.
- Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices) with string orchestra.
- Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary--Songs and music.
- Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
- Genre:
- Oratorios.
- Sacred music.
- Scores.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 score (xxxii, 274 pages, 4 pages of plates)) : facsimiles.
- Place of Publication:
- Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2016.
- Language Note:
- Italian words; also printed as text with English translation by Mark Pobjoy on pages xvii-xxxii.
- Staff notation.
- Summary:
- "Il trionfo has many characteristics of the oratorio genre as Italy understood it in the early eighteenth century. The story is carried forward by a small number of characters, with little involvement of a chorus. The nature of the text, an allegorical representation of the assumption of the Virgin Mary, is, however, less expected. The feast (15 August) celebrates the death and translation of Mary, a story that survives in Greek, Latin, Syriac, and Coptic sources. In Il trionfo, however, any religious narrative is eschewed for a debate between Music and Poetry. Using the building blocks of the oratorio, Marcello achieves a dynamic, dramatic work by introducing variations into the recitative-da capo pattern. The slightly passé academic style of Il pianto has been lifted in tone, leading to the lighter, more homophonic approach of the early classical style." -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Text and translation
- Plates
- Il trionfo della Poesia, e della Musica.Sinfonia ; Prima parte ; Seconda parte
- Critical report
- Appendix : Alternative ending for Part 1.
- Notes:
- Oratorio, probably written for the feast of the Assumption for the church of San Giovanni, a Jesuit institution in Macerata, in the Marche region of Italy.
- For solo voices (Musica [S], Poesia [A], SATB), chorus (SATB), and string orchestra (2 violins, viola, basso continuo).
- Figured bass unrealized.
- Librettist unknown; possibly by Giulio Vitelleschi and/or the composer.
- Edited from manuscript scores in the Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, Brussels (Ms II 3931 Mus Fétis 2173) and Rowe Music Library, King's College, Cambridge (Rowe MS 204), and manuscript libretto in the Archivio Doria Pamphilj, Rome (no. 289).
- Includes introduction and critical report.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Online resource (A-R Editions, viewed November 2, 2018).
- OCLC:
- 1079247708
- Publisher Number:
- B191 A-R Editions, Inc.
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