Complete cantatas / Atto Melani ; edited by Roger Freitas.

Format:

Musical score

Author/Creator:

Melani, Atto, 1626-1714, composer.

Contributor:

Freitas, Roger, editor.

Series:

Collegium musicum (Yale University) ; 2nd series, v.15.

Recent researches in Music Online. 2577-4573.

Collegium musicum (Yale University) ; 2nd series, v.15

Recent researches in Music Online, 2577-4573

Standardized Title:

Cantatas

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Solo cantatas, Secular--Italy--17th century--Scores.

Solo cantatas, Secular.

Solo cantatas, Secular--Italy--18th century--Scores.

Cantatas, Secular--Italy--17th century--Scores.

Cantatas, Secular.

Cantatas, Secular--Italy--18th century--Scores.

Vocal duets with continuo--Italy--Scores.

Vocal duets with continuo.

Genre:

Cantatas.

Scores.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 score (xxxviii, 107 pages, 1 page of plates)) : facsimiles.

Place of Publication:

Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2019.

Language Note:

Italian words, also printed as text with English translations.

Summary:

"This volume presents the complete extant works of Atto Melani (1626-1714), a seventeenth-century singer, composer, diplomat, and spy. All fifteen pieces are chamber cantatas, predominantly for soprano and basso continuo (composed ca. 1655-65). They are certainly the product of a fascinating life: Atto regularly crisscrossed Europe, captivating his many patrons--including Mattias de' Medici, Cardinal Jules Mazarin, Emperor Ferdinand III, Duke Carlo II of Mantua, and Pope Clement IX--as much with his castrato voice as his political acumen. Not surprisingly, perhaps, Atto's cantatas parallel the diversity of his lifestyle, ranging from short strophic songs to vast composite structures, virtual recitative soliloquies to successions of ariosi, amorous laments to satirical assaults on love. Although rooted in the style of Luigi Rossi's circle, the works frequently evince a surprising inventiveness, surely aimed at dazzling Atto's patrons. Indeed, his corpus of works offers an impressive and beautiful snapshot of the Italian cantata just after midcentury." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A più sventure ancora

Fileno, idolo mio

Filli, per cui mi moro

Il tacer non fa per me

Io voglio esser infelice

La più dolente, e misera, che viva

M'abbandona la sorte

Occhi miei belli

O quanto si dolea

Ove, tra sponde d'oro

Scribete, occhi dolenti : C minor, for soprano

Scribete, ochi dolenti : A minor, for bass

S'io sapessi dipingere

Sola tra le sue pene

Tra sponde di smeraldo

Anima, che di foco : duet, for soprano and alto.

Notes:

Primarily for solo voice and continuo.

Includes preface and critical commentary in English.

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource (A-R Editions, viewed June 12, 2019).

OCLC:

1105622682

Publisher Number:

Y2-015 A-R Editions, Inc.