This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...and stood in need of instrumental reinforcement and resources. CHAPTER XXII DRAMATIC MUSIC IN ITALY LATER ERA In consequence of the luxuriant growth of dramatic song the serious a cappella style of the Roman Church gradually gave place, in Italy, to a wholly new mode of musical conception and utterance. Monteverde, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...and stood in need of instrumental reinforcement and resources. CHAPTER XXII DRAMATIC MUSIC IN ITALY LATER ERA In consequence of the luxuriant growth of dramatic song the serious a cappella style of the Roman Church gradually gave place, in Italy, to a wholly new mode of musical conception and utterance. Monteverde, Cavalli, and Cesti had already found the beginnings of a new musical language better suited to the expression of human passion; Carissimi had extended, enriched, and intensified this language; and his great successor, Alessandro Scarlatti, marks the inauguration of a most brilliant era of Italian dramatic art. The earliest and chief centre of activity was at Naples, and the array of masters engaged there in the creation of dramatic works (especially operas) were known as the Younger Neapolitan School. To this era belong, first, two scholars of Scarlatti, Francesco Durante and Leonardo Leo, who head the masters of the younger Neapolitan school. Durante was born in 1684 (one year before Handel and Bach) at Fratta Maggiore, studied at first with Alessandro Scarlatti, then in Rome with Pasquini; later he became chapelmaster in Naples, where he died in 1755. He was Scarlatti's inferior in point of dramatic talent, but his works exhibit a certain thoroughness and brilliancy. His orchestra was still primitive, though he began to make use of flutes, oboes, bassoons, horns, and trumpets. Leonardo Leo was born in 1694, followed a career very similar to that of Durante, and died in 1744. His melodies were more flowing and graceful than those of his contemporary, but also more effeminate. Leo was the favourite of all Italy. He wrote about forty operas, several oratorios, and a multitude of sacred works, mostly with orchestral accompaniment. A closer imitator...
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