Instrumental Music in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples - Politics, Patronage and Artistic Culture

Demonstrates the cultivation and interest in instrumental genres by Neapolitan musicians and its significant stature at the royal court.

List of contents

List of illustrations; List of music examples; List of tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Naples on the grand tour and within the historical imagination; 2. The Neapolitan conservatories: identity, formation, operation; 3. Pedagogical training in the conservatories; 4. Maria Carolina as cultural patron and icon; 5. Music for the court of Naples; 6. Genre, style, and transnational currents; 7. Maestri e operisti: Paisiello; 8. Maestri e operisti: Cimarosa and Guglielmi; 9. Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Anthony R. DelDonna, Ph.D. is Professor of Musicology and Director of the Music Program at Georgetown University, Washington DC. His research focuses on stage drama, instrumental music, archival studies, and ballet in early modern Italy and appears in The Journal of Musicology, Acta Musicologica, Quaderni d'Italianistica, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Early Music, Eighteenth-Century Music, Recercare, and Studi musicali. DelDonna is the author of the monograph Opera, Theatrical Culture and Society in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples (2012) and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Opera with Pierpaolo Polzonetti (2009).

Product details

• Authors: Deldonna Anthony R. Deldonna, Anthony R Deldonna, Anthony R. Deldonna, Anthony R. (Georgetown University Deldonna, DELDONNA ANTHONY R.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781108477611
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47761-1
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Classical Music (C 1750 To C 1830), Classical style, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Western "classical" music