Don Harrán (1936 – 2016)
Salamone Rossi
Jewish Musician in Late Renaissance Mantua Oxford Monographs on Music
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Details
- Product Type
- Book (softcover)
- Author / Composer
- Don Harrán
- Product number
- 770732
- Languages
- english
- Release Year
- 1999
- Extent
- 320 Pages
Description
Salamone Rossi (c.1570-c.1628) occupies a unique place in Renaissance music culture: he was the earliest outstanding Jewish composer to work in the European art music tradition. In the field of instrumental music, he established the trio sonata as a standard combination of voices for 17th-century chamber music and developed the sonata into a vehicle of virtuoso display. In his vocal works, he wrote music to texts of some of the most fashionable poets of his day, including Battista Guarini, Gabri...
Content
- Introduction
- 1:, The Man
- 2:, The Publications
- 3:, Italian Vocal Music
- 4:, Instrumental Music
- 5:, From Composition to Performance
- 6:, Music for the Theatre
- 7:, `The Songs of Solomon'
- Epilogue From Conflict to Consonance
- Appendix - Works
- Glossary of Musical Terms for the General Reader
- Bibliography
- Index
