"STIMU, Foundation for Historical Performance Practice, Utrech 2015"--T.p. Conference papers (15) delivered at the symposium, Passaggio in Italia : music on the Grand Tour in the seventeenth century, held in Utrecht from August 24-26, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-265) and index.
Contents:
Three Spaniards meet Italian opera in the age of Spanish imperialism / Louise K. Stein (Ann Arbor, Michigan). Musical encounters public and private / Margaret Murata (Irvine, California) -- Singer-songwriters, the lute and the stile nuovo / John Griffiths (Melbourne) -- High, middle, and low: singing Monteverdi / Richard Wistreich (Manchester, U. K.) -- Italia decolor? Constantijn Huygens and Italian music / Rufolf Rasch (Utrecht) -- Caccini in the Netherlands / Natascha Veldhorst (Nijmegen) -- Travelling players and Venetian opera: further parallels between Commedia dell'arte and Dramma per musica / John Walter Hill (Urbana, Illinois) -- Fortuna instabile: Francesco Lucio and opera production in seventeenth-century Venice / Beth L. Glixon (Lexington, Kentucky) -- Cavalli as performer: what the manuscript score can tell us / Hendrik Schulze (Denton, Texas) -- Barbara Strozzi and the taming of the male poetic voice / Wendy B. Heller (Princeton, New Jersey) -- A French visitor to Florence, May 1589 / Iain Fenlon (Cambridge, U. K.) -- The oratorio in Rome in the seicento: its sites and its public / Arnaldo Morelli (Rome, Italy) -- La vie humaine dans les livrets de Giulio Rospigliosi: eléments pour une analyse typologique des personnages / Jean-François Lattarico (Lyon) -- L'armoniose idee della sua mente: Corelli, the Arcadians, and the primacy of Rome / Franco Piperno (Rome, Italy) -- Three Spaniards meet Italian opera in the age of Spanish imperialism / Louise K. Stein (Ann Arbor, Michigan).
Summary:
Some of the contents: Italian soundscapes: Souvenirs from the Grand Tour, Dinko Fabris; Musical encounters public and private, Margaret Murata; Singer-songwriters, the Lute, and the Stile Nuovo, John Griffiths; High, middle, and low: Singing Monteverdi, Richard Wistreich; 'Italia decolor?' Constantijn Huygens and Italian Music, Rudolf Rasch; Caccini in the Netherlands, Natascha Veldhorst; Barbara Strozzi and the taming of the male poetic voice, Wendy B. Heller; Travelling players and Venetian Opera: Further parallels between Commedia dell'arte and Dramma per musica, John Walter Hill; 'Fortuna instabile': Francesco Lucio and Opera Production in Seventeenth-Century Venice, Beth L. Glixon; Cavalli as performer: What the Manuscript score can tell us, Hendrik Schulze; A French visitor to Florence, May 1589, Iain Fenlon; The Oratorio in Rome in the Seicento: Its sites and its public, Arnaldo Morelli.
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