Solo serenatas / Alessandro Scarlatti ; edited by Marie-Louise Catsalis and Rosalind Halton.

Format:

Musical score

Author/Creator:

Scarlatti, Alessandro, 1660-1725, composer.

Contributor:

Catsalis, Marie-Louise, editor.

Halton, Rosalind, editor.

Series:

Recent researches in the music of the Baroque Era ; 175.

Recent researches in Music Online. 2577-4573.

Recent researches in the music of the Baroque Era ; 175

Recent researches in Music Online, 2577-4573

Standardized Title:

Serenatas. Selections

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Serenatas--Italy--17th century--Scores and parts.

Serenatas.

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

Solo cantatas, Secular.

Songs (High voice) with instrumental ensemble--Scores and parts.

Songs (High voice) with instrumental ensemble.

Genre:

Art music.

Serenatas.

Scores.

Parts (Music)

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 score (xlii, 191 pages, 10 pages of plates)) : facsimiles + 2 sets of 1 and 3 parts respectively.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

Italian words, also printed as texts with English translations on pages xxxi-xlii.

Staff notation.

Summary:

"The term serenata a voce sola, until recently subsumed within the genre of the cantata, was a title used with assurance by poets, composers, and scribes of the seventeenth century. Found in sources by both Roman and Neapolitan copyists, these previously unpublished works by Alessandro Scarlatti represent a unique and richly imaginative fusion of two serenata traditions that form Scarlatti's stylistic heritage: the Roman style, especially of Stradella, and the Neapolitan tradition of the solo serenata of the 1670s-80s. Instead of the dramatic large-scale entertainments usually associated with the serenata, these are intense soliloquies for the connoisseur of music and poetry: scored mostly for a concertino of two violins and bass, composed within a framework of recitatives/ariosos and arias, and exhibiting immense originality in structure and musical imagery. The evocation of night, dreams, and unfulfilled love forms their subject matter. Seven of these undated works clearly belong to Scarlatti's seventeenth-century output, including two with continuo only. Two can be dated to ca. 1704/05, great works with which Scarlatti bid farewell to the genre of the solo serenata. An unattributed Roman work forming part of the Münster archive of Scarlatti's serenatas is included in an appendix." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Sventurati miei penzieri : serenata a voce sola di canto

Eurilla, amata Eurilla : serenata a voce sola

All'hor che stanco il sole : serenata a voce sola (con violini)

Hor che l'aurato nume : serenata a voce sola con violini

Prima d'esservi infedele : serenata a voce sola con violini

Perché tacete, regolati concenti? : cantata, alto solo con violini

Sotto l'ombra d'un faggio : serenata a voce sola con violini

Notte, ch'in carro d'ombre : serenata, soprano solo con violini

Hor che di Febo ascosi : serenata, soprano solo con violini

Appendix: Era l'oscura notte : serenata a voce sola con strumenti.

Notes:

For solo voice with continuo or 2 violins and continuo; figured bass unrealized.

Era l'oscura notte is anonymous, formerly attributed to Scarlatti (H. 249).

Includes introduction and critical report.

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource (A-R Editions, viewed February 26, 2019).

OCLC:

1090930337

Publisher Number:

B175 A-R Editions, Inc. (score)

B175P1 A-R Editions, Inc. (parts)

B175P2 A-R Editions, Inc. (parts)