UID:
almafu_9960966410202883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 307 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-80010-547-9
Series Statement:
Eastman studies in music
Uniform Title:
Partimenti Giovanni Paisiellos.
Content:
Reveals the brilliant musical and pedagogical thinking of the famed eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Neapolitan composer and teacher of royal students. Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816) was one of the most important composers of opera in the eighteenth century. His operas were performed throughout Europe, and his fame led to appointments as a maestro di cappella and composer at prominent European courts. This book is the first study to address his work as a teacher of composition and what we would today call music theory. The practice of partimento (figured or unfigured bass lines) was an integral part of the training of musicians at the renowned conservatories in eighteenth-century Naples. By employing these often-unprepossessing partimento bass lines, young musicians learned the techniques of variation, improvisation, and composition while seated at the harpsichord. Paisiello's Regole per bene accompagnare il Partimento (Rules for Harpsichordists; 1782) survives in both autograph and printed forms. It contains forty-six partimenti that have long been considered the core of his pedagogic oeuvre. However, two recently discovered manuscripts contain a further forty-one unknown partimenti, notated as two- and three-part disposizioni (realizations). The present study offers numerous insights gleaned from the surviving sources and bolsters our understanding of how to perform the music of Paisiello and his contemporaries: music that has often survived in an incomplete form. These findings are relevant not just for keyboard players but also for singers, instrumentalists, and anyone interested in the inner workings of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century music.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Jan 2023).
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Giovanni Paisiello, composer and teacher -- The sources -- Instructions at the conservatories -- Paisiello's Regole (1782) -- Practical examples from Paisiello's Circle -- The practical application of partimenti today.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Paraschivescu, Nicoleta The Partimenti of Giovanni Paisiello Rochester : University of Rochester Press,c2022 ISBN 9781648250361
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781800105478
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781800105478/type/BOOK
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