Saints and sinners : the Latin musical dialogue in the seventeenth century
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Saints and sinners : the Latin musical dialogue in the seventeenth century
Clarendon Press, 1992
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
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  Yamagata
  Fukushima
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
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Note
Bibliography: p. [376]-379
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a study of the 17th-century Latin role dialogue, a sung conversation on a sacred subject involving two or more characters, each of whom is represented by a single voice. This is the first critical study of the genre, which has never been the object of comprehensive scholarly treatment. Few exist in modern editions, and a valuable portion of this book is the complete transcriptions of ten dialogues, representative of their range and invention. Professor Noske divides his subject-matter into biblical and non-biblical dialogues, and offers a comprehensive discussion of their musical and non-musical aspects. The development of the genre throughout the 17th century is illustrated by focusing on six dialogues on the subject of the Sacrifice of Abraham. Those few dialogues written outside Italy (less than 10 per cent) are considered separately. The text is illustrated throughout with many music examples. In the course of his discussion, Professor Noske brings to light a number of minor masters and allows for a reappraisal of more well-known composers familiar through other genres, such as Giovanni Legrenzi.
The study also adds to our understanding of 17th-century sacred music as a whole.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Historical and analytical observations: general aspects
- Italy - dialogues based on the Old Testament
- - dialogues based on the New Testament
- - non-scriptural dialogues
- the Latin dialogue outside Italy
- the sacrifice of Abraham - six dialogues compared. Part 2 Transcription of 10 dialogues.
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