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Il pianto e il riso delle quattro stagioni / Benedetto Marcello ; edited by Michael Burden.
- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Marcello, Benedetto, 1686-1739, composer.
- Series:
- Recent researches in the music of the Baroque Era ; 118.
- Recent researches in Music Online. 2577-4573.
- Recent researches in the music of the Baroque Era ; 118
- Recent researches in Music Online, 2577-4573
- Standardized Title:
- Pianto e il riso delle quattro stagioni dell'anno
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Songs and music.
- Mary.
- Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary--Songs and music.
- Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
- Oratorios--Scores.
- Oratorios.
- Genre:
- Oratorios.
- Scores.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 score (xxiv, 167 pages, 4 pages of plates)) : facsimiles.
- Place of Publication:
- Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2019.
- Language Note:
- Italian words ; also printed as text, with English translation, on pages xv-xxiv.
- Summary:
- "Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739), remembered best today for some attractive instrumental music, including some virtuosic works for oboe, and his satire of the opera house, Il teatro alla moda, also wrote a small group of oratorios, including a pair of allegorical pieces for the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin at Macerata. One of these was Il pianto e il riso delle quattro stagioni from 1733. It has been described as a "highly poetic, generally mellow, faintly comic" work, in which Marcello employed "the whole arsenal of techniques he had mastered over a quarter-century"; in fact, not only is there amazing attention to detail in the string articulation, but it also provides an important record of a composer's expectations of his string orchestra. Few oratorios from this locale and period are available in modern editions, and this example has all the formal characteristics associated with the genre of oratorio in the first half of the eighteenth century." -- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Oratorio for 4 (SATB) soloists, mixed choir and string orchestra.
- Editorial and biographical notes and critical report in English.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Online resource (A-R Editions, viewed October 28, 2019).
- OCLC:
- 1125966926
- Publisher Number:
- B118 A-R Editions, Inc.
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