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Author DelDonna, Anthony, author.

Title Instrumental music in late eighteenth-century Naples : politics, patronage and artistic culture / Anthony R. DelDonna
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 322 pages) : illustrations
Contents Naples on the Grand Tour and Within the Historical Imagination -- The Neapolitan Conservatories : Identity, Formation, Operation -- Pedagogical Training in the Conservatories -- Maria Carolina as Cultural Patron and Icon -- Music for the Court of Naples -- Genre, Style, and Transnational Currents -- Maestri e operisti : Paisiello -- Maestri e operisti : Cimarosa and Guglielmi -- Epilogue
Summary "The music of early modern Naples and its renowned artistic traditions remain a fruitful area for scholars in eighteenth-century studies. Contemporary social, political, and artistic conditions had stimulated a significant growth of music, musicians and culture in the Kingdom of Naples from the beginning of the seventeenth century. Although eighteenth-century Neapolitan opera is well documented in scholarship, historians have paid much less attention to the simultaneous cultivation of instrumental genres. Yet the culture of instrumental music grew steadily and by its end became an exclusive area of focus for the royal court, a remarkable departure from past norms of patronage. By bridging this gap, Anthony R. DelDonna brings together diverse fields, including historical musicology, music theory, Neapolitan and European history. His book investigates the wide-ranging role of instrumental genres within late eighteenth-century Neapolitan culture and introduces readers to new material, including recently discovered instrumental works of Paisiello, Cimarosa and Pleyel"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 23, 2020)
Subject Instrumental music -- Italy -- Naples -- 18th century -- History and criticism
Music -- Social aspects -- Italy -- Naples -- History -- 18th century
Conservatories of music -- Italy -- Naples -- History -- 18th century
Conservatories of music
Instrumental music
Music -- Social aspects
Italy -- Naples
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020025560
ISBN 9781108804073
1108804071
9781108770064
1108770061