Six chamber cantatas for solo voice / Girolamo Polani ; edited by Michael Talbot.

Format:

Musical score

Author/Creator:

Polani, Girolamo, active 1689-1720, composer.

Contributor:

Talbot, Michael, 1943- editor.

Series:

Recent researches in the music of the Baroque Era ; 172.

Recent researches in Music Online. 2577-4573.

Recent researches in the music of the Baroque Era ; 172

Recent researches in Music Online, 2577-4573

Standardized Title:

Cantate da camera

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Solo cantatas, Secular (High voice)--Scores.

Solo cantatas, Secular (High voice).

Genre:

Cantatas.

Scores.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 score (xviii, 50 pages, 2 pages of plates)) : facsimiles.

Other Title:

6 chamber cantatas

Chamber cantatas

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

Italian words, also printed as texts with English translations on p.xvi-xviii.

Staff notation.

Summary:

"The six cantatas included in this edition are the sole surviving compositions of Girolamo Polani. Born in the Venetian state ca. 1670, Polani joined the cappella of San Marco, Venice, in 1689 as a soprano. Between 1700 and 1717 he was also active as a composer for the Venetian stage, once crossing swords with Vivaldi. In 1717 he came to Britain, where he remained--or at least stayed for long periods--during the rest of his poorly documented life. He was in the service of Lady Grisell Baillie as a music master in 1735-36. It was in Britain around the same time that he produced his cantatas: a set of six concise scores for soprano and continuo preserved in the British Library. These remarkably fine works, which manage to combine galant elements with traditional counterpoint in an original way, are testimonies to the Indian summer that the Italian chamber cantata enjoyed on British soil during the period of Handel's operas." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Vaghe rose, aprite il seno

Se ti piace di farmi morire

Dolente e mesta

Lasciami un sol momento

Verrà un dì che la mia bella

Era meglio lasciarmi morire.

Notes:

For soprano or tenor and continuo; figured bass unrealized.

Edited from copyist's manuscript: Cantate da camera a voce sola (Royal Music Library, London, R.M. 22.m.28 (1.-6.)).

Includes introduction and critical report.

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource (A-R Editions, viewed February 20, 2019).

OCLC:

1090934740

Publisher Number:

B172 A-R Editions, Inc. (score)