Arcangelo Corelli

Zusatztext gives a much-needed update to our view of Corelli. It encapsulates a formidable amount of information about a repertoire which has always been popular! particularly in England. Klappentext Arcangelo Corelli presents a much-needed reappraisal of the life and works of this phenomenally successful composer set against the lavish setting of seventeenth-century Rome, and exploring the paths by which his music became established as `models of perfection' for generations to come. Zusammenfassung The first full-length study for forty years, Arcangelo Corelli offers a much needed reassessment of the seminal composer's life and works. His current historical perspective is still largely conditioned by the opinions of Burney and Hawkins in the late 18th century who saw him as the consolidator of past trends rather than an instigator--a view fully endorsed in the two biographies of the present century. Neither of these writers was truly in a position to make such judgements if only because neither was aware of the contributions of the Roman School to which Corelli emphatically affirmed his allegiance. Extensive archival research over recent years now dispels much of the anecdote and hearsay accumulated over the centuries and makes possible a more balanced evaluation of Corelli's true status in the development of the prime instrumental genres, accounting for his phenomenal success both during his lifetime and in the creation of musical canon in the decades after his death.

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• Authors: Peter Allsop, Peter (Lecturer Allsop, Allsop Peter
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.05.1999
• EAN: 9780198165620
• ISBN: 978-0-19-816562-0
• Dimensions: 195 mm x 255 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Oxford Monographs on Music; Oxford Monographs on Music
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Biography: arts & entertainment, baroque, Renaissance style, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, Composers and songwriters, Biography: arts and entertainment, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600), Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750), Medieval style