This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X Male Soprani And Other Virtuosi We may now return to the historical survey. In our study of this period we shall be obliged from time to time to overstep its limits. No inclusive review of these fruitful years can be made without occasional .retrospects of the past and flights beyond the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X Male Soprani And Other Virtuosi We may now return to the historical survey. In our study of this period we shall be obliged from time to time to overstep its limits. No inclusive review of these fruitful years can be made without occasional .retrospects of the past and flights beyond the border which separates them from the succeeding era. When the seventeenth century began, the glory of the virtuoso singer, as we have noted, was already spread above the horizon of musical art. His sun had risen, and by the end of the century it was blazing in the intolerable splendor of its high noon. Our prospect is crowded with composers who were singers, singers who were composers or decorators of other men's compositions, women who rivalled the most famous diva of modern times in their amazing skill in florid song, and whose musicianship was such that some of them rivalled their masculine contemporaries as composers, cardinals who were the princely patrons and in a measure dictators of the realm of music, male sopranos already challenging the attention of the world and claiming that imperial crown which was ultimately set upon their arrogant brows. The scene is animated, somewhat confused, somewhat difficult of appreciation, because the perspective is so long that this thickly peopled background spreads itself before us in a flat mass of figures which we separate with difficulty. Already, however, we have noted the advent of such artists as Peri and Caccini, composers and singers, who were actively concerned in the birth of the monodic style of the young Florentine school, a style which, as we have seen, was not artificially made, but legitimately descended through an artistic line. In our view of the secular part song we have seen...
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