Italian opera and oratorio

Speranza

The South Atlantic quarterly: Volume 38
books.google.comJohn Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson - 1939 - Snippet view



Discounting henceforth the decadent Italian types,
the stream of oratorio is continuous in the compositions of
the German, Schiitz, who possessed
a musical training in Italian opera and oratorio.
The connection, in form, ...


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The South Atlantic quarterly: Volume 38
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Discounting henceforth the decadent Italian types, the stream of oratorio is continuous in the compositions of the German, Schutz, who possessed a musical training in Italian opera and oratorio. The connection, in form, ...


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The New Grove Haydn - Page 6

books.google.comJames Webster, Georg Feder - 2003 - 208 pages - Preview
... composition' from

Porpora, whose expert knowledge of singing and Italian
- 'singing' in this context implies Italian
opera and oratorio - was also of great importance; Haydn
became fluent in Italian and the italianate singing style.


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How Music Developed: A Critical And Explanatory Account of the ... - Page 148



books.google.comW. J. Henderson - 2005 - 420 pages - Preview

The advent of Italian opera and oratorio
ushered in the first organized
use of the orchestra.

Cavaliere's "Anima e Corpo," an oratorio, had
an orchestra consisting of

a viola di gamba,
a harpsichord,
a bass lute, and
two flutes.


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From Vivaldi to Viotti: a history of the early classical violin ... - Page 182
books.google.comChappell White - 1992 - 375 pages - Preview

Joseph Myslivecek (1737-1781) was
noted in his lifetime primarily as
a composer of Italian opera and oratorio, but his
instrumental works were also widely known, and his chamber music was published in Paris and London.


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Our Marching Civilization: An Introduction to the Study of Music ... - Page 6

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The laudi in dialogue also formed one basis
for early Italian opera and oratorio.
Going back eleven centuries, we find that the recently discovered Oxyrhyncos hymn, the oldest now available, is also in march measure.


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Performance practice: a dictionary-guide for musicians - Page 173

books.google.comRoland John Jackson - 2005 - 513 pages - Preview

As a vocal composer, Handel transmitted
the genres of Italian opera and oratorio
to England. In his instrumental writing
he transformed the Italian concerto and French suite forms. In many ways (especially in his choral writing) he was ...


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The Eighteenth century: Volume 2


books.google.comAmerican Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies - 1976 - Snippet view

This volume has thirteen contributors—British, French, German, and American— although a little more than half the text is the work of two of them:

HC Wolff on Italian opera and oratorio
and Paul Steinitz on German church music.


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Music in time: a survey of western music


books.google.comCarroll Moulton - 1983 - 280 pages - Snippet view



He combined features of Italian opera and oratorio
with the German and English traditions; he used
pictorial effects splendidly; his harmonic language was rich and expressive. Although he did not radically alter his musical style, ...


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Sims Reeves, his life and recollections
books.google.comSims Reeves - 1888 - 285 pages - Snippet view

Many as have been my successes in Italian Opera and Oratorio, I
never achieved a greater triumph than that which I obtained at the end of 1878 and the beginning of 1879 at Covent Garden, in the "Beggar's Opera," the "Waterman," and ...


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