Two cantatas for tenor voice by Alessandro Stradella : Il Xerse and Pieta` di Belisario, modern editions with historical and analytical commentary

UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
Hunter Cameron Hensley (Creator)
Institution
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Advisor
Eleanor McCrickard

Abstract: The purpose of this document was to prepare modern performing editions of two solo cantatas by Alessandro Stradella. Historical commentary includes an overview of Stradella's life and musical output, the poetic style and structure of seventeenth-century Italian cantata texts, and pertinent information about the historical subjects of the cantata texts, Xerxes and Belisarius. A synopsis of each cantata is followed by analytical observations which describe the correlation of the musical setting to the text of the cantatas. A study of the musico-poetic relationships includes investigation of both the open and closed poetic forms of the cantata texts and the tonal aspects as they relate to the text setting.

Additional Information

Publication
Dissertation
Language: English
Date: 1995
Subjects
Stradella, Alessandro, $d 1639-1682. $t Vocal music. $k Selections
Solo cantatas

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