String Virtuosi in Eighteenth-Century Naples - Culture, Power, and Music Institutions

Drawing on extensive archival work, this book examines the crucial contribution of Neapolitan string virtuosi to the dissemination of instrumental music and to the development of string practices and musical culture in Europe. It presents a fresh look at the central place of instrumental music in early modern Naples and considers aspects of music pedagogy, performance practices, patronage, and musicians' social mobility. Music examples, paintings, and lists of personnel of major music institutions inform the discussion and illustrate the opportunities for social mobility afforded by the music profession. Music production and consumption are considered within their cultural, political, and economic contexts and in connection with the rapid political changes of eighteenth-century Naples. This substantial contribution to the understanding of a previously under-studied repertory places the cultivation of Neapolitan instrumental music at the centre of aesthetic and cultural developments across eighteenth-century Europe.

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• Authors: Guido Olivieri, Guido (University of Texas Olivieri
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781009273688
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0927368-8
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 175 mm x 250 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Print on Demand
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Music, History: specific events & topics, Performing Arts, MUSIC / General, The arts: general issues, Italy, General & world history, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Music, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Theory of music & musicology, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, General and world history, Southern Italy and Islands, C 1600 To C 1700, C 1700 To C 1800, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Theory of music and musicology, Western "classical" music, For undergraduate education and equivalents, For graduate / post-graduate and equivalents