Secular vocal music / Francesco Barsanti, edited by Michael Talbot.

Format:

Musical score

Author/Creator:

Barsanti, Francesco, approximately 1690-1775, composer.

Contributor:

Talbor, Michael, 1943- editor.

Series:

Recent researches in the music of the Baroque Era ; 197.

Recent researches in the music of the Baroque Era, 2577-4573 ; 197

Standardized Title:

Vocal music. Selections

Language:

English

French

Italian

Subjects (All):

Solo cantatas, Secular (High voice).

Madrigals, Italian.

Songs with continuo.

Glees, catches, rounds, etc.

Genre:

Cantatas.

Madrigals (Music)

Songs.

Rounds (Music)

Scores.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 score, xxv, 71 pages, 2 pages of plates) : facsimiles.

Place of Publication:

Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2017.

Language Note:

Italian, French, and English words, also printed as texts with English translations on pages xviii-xxv.

Staff notation.

Introduction in English.

Summary:

A latecomer to music and not particularly gifted as an executant on any instrument (a great handicap for any musician in an age when music appreciation was performer-centered rather than composer-centered), the Italian expatriate Francesco Barsanti (ca. 1690-1775) would seem doomed to failure, especially given his reportedly unassertive, even timid, personality; but his versatility, industry, and ability to win and retain a surprisingly large support network kept him afloat until the end. The compact but by no means negligible corpus of music he produced in a wide variety of genres makes him one of the most original and interesting composers active in eighteenth-century Britain. His instrumental music has already won some recognition in modern times, but his equally impressive vocal music, all produced in Britain, is so far virtually unknown. The present volume, which contains all Barsanti's secular vocal music known to survive, together with a complementary volume containing his complete sacred vocal music, aims to bring these attractive works before the musicological community and the public at large. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Italian cantatas for soprano and basso continuo. Oh giorno, oh infausto giorno

Un sospiro a chi si muore

Chi mai vi fe' sì belle

E qual legge m'imponi

Oh quante volte, oh quante

Italian madrigal for soprano, alto, tenor, and bass: Chi mai vi fe' sì belle

French airs for solo voice and basso continuo. La jeune Iris, dans un bocage

Maman, ne grondez pas si fort

Ce n'est plus un mystère

Je n'entends plus dessous l'ormeau

Il faut, quand on aime une fois

Un jour dans un vert bocage

English catches for four equal voices. Happy is the man that findeth wisdom

Fye! What mean you drunken elves.

Notes:

The continuo is unfigured and unrealized.

Edited principally from an autograph in the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Hamburg, M A/833 (cantatas); a set of parts in Madrigal Society, London, A 6-11 (GB-Lms 6-11) (madrigal); the "Bodner album," Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, Cologny-Genève, Ms. 11641-7 (airs); Royal College of Music, London, MS 208 (1st catch); and British Library, London, Catch Club collection H. 2788 (2nd catch).

Includes introduction and critical report.

Includes bibliographical references (pages xv-xvii).

Online resource (A-R Editions, viewed October 18, 2018).

Contains:

Container of: Barsanti, Francesco, approximately 1690-1755. Vocal music. Selections.

OCLC:

1076060568

Publisher Number:

B197 A-R Editions, Inc. (score)