Barcheggio

Barcheggio
Author: Alessandro Stradella
Publisher:
Total Pages: 22
Release: 1971
Genre: Cantatas, Secular
ISBN:

A Catalog of Music for the Cornett

A Catalog of Music for the Cornett
Author: Michael Collver
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1996-08-22
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780253209740

". . . a major contribution to cornett research and belongs in the library of every cornettist." —Historic Brass Society ". . . scrupulously detailed. . . The first successful attempt to provide a comprehensive reference book on the cornett and its music. Recommended for both upper-division undergraduate libraries and collections serving music scholars and performers." —Choice " . . . it will likely stand as the definitive bibliography of cornett music for many years." —Notes ". . . this is a groundbreaking study of the subject . . . likely to remain the only major study of the instrument and the music composed for it." —American Reference Books Annual ". . . every cornett player owes an immense debt of gratitude to [the authors and their assistants] for revealing such a wealth of performing opportunities . . ." —European Journal of Early Music The cornett is made of wood but has a brass cup mouthpiece and uses woodwind finger technique. Here the authors have compiled a bibliography of all extant sources of instrumental and vocal music which specify the cornett.

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.