Author: Paul F. Rice
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2020-01-08
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1527545059
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study examines Thomas Arne’s solo cantatas and Italian odes from musical, literary and social perspectives. Arne composed these works between 1740 and 1774. As such, they provide a means of evaluating the evolving aspects of his musical style throughout his compositional career. The Italian odes have been little-studied, but provide an important gloss on Charles Burney’s comments on Arne’s inability to set the Italian language. Study of the cantata texts that Arne set reveals that they are often pastiches which make use of the words of William Congreve, Alexander Pope, Christopher Smart and others. The resulting process of adaptation and recombination re-contextualizes the borrowed material, resulting in differing emphases and changed meanings. Arne was restricted in his career opportunities because of his Catholic faith. The cantata genre provided Arne with an important creative outlet in the hedonistic atmosphere of the concerts of London’s pleasure gardens.
Author: Sacred Harmonic Society (London, England)
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Published: 1853
Total Pages: 158
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Published: 1862
Total Pages: 344
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 788
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Published: 1720
Total Pages: 50
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