Stradella's Revenge

Stradella's Revenge
Author: Robert Tell
Publisher: RTP Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2016-02-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1310914362

Who is killing classical composers all over America? A serial killer is on the loose and Harry Grouch must find out why and catch the murderer. "Stradella's Revenge" is based on the real life conflicts of two 17th century Italian composers, Tomaso Albinoni and Alessandro Stradella. It is the third in the entertaining Harry Grouch Detective Series that includes "The Witch of Maple Park" and "Nanobe." Dr. Tomaso Albinoni, a Medical Microbiologist at Bard Memorial Hospital (and a descendant of the baroque composer with the same name) hires Harry Grouch and Associates to investigate anonymous death threats. Could they be related to an unsolved series of recent murders of other composers? Harry discovers that in Tom Albinoni's case they may be revenge threats coming from a descendant of Alessandro Stradella, a composer who was assassinated in 1682, possibly by one of Albinoni's ancestors. These were real and talented composers whose music is often heard and celebrated today. Flashbacks to 1682 reveal what really happened. Stradella was a blessed composer and a cursed personality, a cad, a womanizer, and an embezzler from the church. Some would probably say he deserved assassination. The current day Albinoni is stalked by the current day Stradella. Harry Grouch investigates using clues from the composer's music. What is driving the modern day Stradella and will Harry catch him in time?

Stradella

Stradella
Author: Friedrich von Flotow
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1885
Genre: Operas
ISBN:

Aspects of the Secular Cantata in Late Baroque Italy

Aspects of the Secular Cantata in Late Baroque Italy
Author: Michael Talbot
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2009
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780754657941

The contributors in this volume choose aspects of the cantata relevant to their special interests in order to say new things about the works, whether historical, analytical, bibliographical, discographical or performance-based. The prime focus is on Italian-born composers working between 1650 and 1750 and many key figures are considered, among them Tomaso Albinoni, Giovanni Bononcini, Giovanni Legrenzi, Benedetto Marcello, Alessandro Scarlatti, Alessandro Stradella, Leonardo Vinci and Antonio Vivaldi. The book aims to stimulate interest in, and to win converts to, this genre, which in its day equalled the instrumental sonata in importance, and in which more than a few composers invested a major part of their creativity.

Stradella

Stradella
Author: Francis Marion Crawford
Publisher:
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1909
Genre:
ISBN:

Stradella

Stradella
Author: James Sherwood
Publisher:
Total Pages: 246
Release: 1967
Genre: Sunset Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
ISBN:

Alessandro Stradella, 1639-1682

Alessandro Stradella, 1639-1682
Author: Carolyn Gianturco
Publisher: Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1994
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Alessandro Stradella was one of the most important composers of seventeenth-century Italy, contributing significant works to almost every contemporary genre. However, his precise position within the Italian musical baroque has never been properly evaluated, while his biography has long been enshrouded in myth and legend, following his murder in Genoa in 1682. This book is the definitive life and works study of this crucially important composer. The biographical section is the result of extensive documentary research over many years, and presents a clear account of Stradella's career and colorful personal life in all the cities where he lived--Rome, Venice, Turin, and Genoa--as well as information on his patrons and the poets whose words he set. The musical discussion offers a clear exposition of Stradella's 308 extant compositions, illustrated with nearly fifty music examples.

Administered Prices

Administered Prices
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1900
Release: 1958
Genre: Cost and standard of living
ISBN:

Examines the impact of administered prices in concentrated industries on the cost of living. Also compares market pricing mechanisms of agricultural industries with administered pricing practices of manufacturing industries.

'Make It Old': Retro Forms and Styles in Literature and Music

'Make It Old': Retro Forms and Styles in Literature and Music
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2022-07-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004516476

‘Retro’ is not only a pervading phenomenon in today’s Western culture but has informed cultural history for some centuries and thus gives momentousness to the subject of the present volume, namely literary texts and musical compositions which, for various reasons and with multiple functions, ‘make it old’.

Words on Music

Words on Music
Author: David Rosen
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2003
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781576470978

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