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Cassandra / Benedetto Marcello ; edited by Talya Berger.
- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Marcello, Benedetto, 1686-1739, composer.
- Series:
- Recent researches in the music of the Baroque Era ; 192.
- Recent researches in Music Online. 2577-4573.
- Recent researches in the music of the Baroque Era ; 192
- Recent researches in Music Online, 2577-4573
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Cassandra (Legendary character)--Songs and music.
- Cassandra.
- Solo cantatas, Secular (Low voice)--Scores.
- Solo cantatas, Secular (Low voice).
- Genre:
- Cantatas.
- Scores.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 score (xxi, 45 pages, 3 pages of plates)) : facsimiles.
- Place of Publication:
- Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2016.
- Language Note:
- Italian words; words also printed separately as text, with English translation by Alessandra Aquilanti (pages xv-xxi).
- Staff notation.
- Summary:
- "Benedetto Marcello's Cassandra was composed in 1727 to a poem by Antonio Conti written at Marcello's request. Cassandra is a large-scale dramatic cantata for solo alto voice with unfigured basso continuo for the harpsichord. The cantata was not published in Marcello's lifetime and describes the events of the last years of Trojan War, as told by the prophetess Cassandra. Unique in its formal design, the cantata blends arioso sections with recitatives and arias. The expressive vocal line conveys grief, rage, terror, and happiness, and demands vocal agility and technical command from the singer. Cassandra was among the most popular of Marcello's cantatas during the eighteenth century and continued to be performed regularly up to forty years after it was composed." -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Text and translation
- Plates
- Cassandra
- Critical report.
- Notes:
- Solo cantata for alto voice with continuo.
- Figured bass unrealized; figures added by the editor.
- Text by Abate Antonio Schinella Conti.
- Edited primarily from manuscript score I-Nc, Ms. Cantate 187, Conservatorio di Musica S. Pietro a Majella, Biblioteca, Naples.
- Includes introduction and critical report.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Online resource (A-R Editions, viewed November 2, 2018).
- OCLC:
- 1079227393
- Publisher Number:
- B192 A-R Editions, Inc.
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