Two comic cantatas
Produktnummer:
2131520834
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The eighteenth century saw a great increase in secular music for solo voice and continuo set to texts in Venetian, which was then a recognized literary language, not a mere dialect of Italian. Most of these compositions are short gondola songs or canzonettas, but a few are cantatas in several movements indistinguishable from their counterparts with Italian texts except in language and subject matter, which favours contemporary themes treated in a comic manner. The two Venetian cantatas for soprano and continuo by Diogenio Bigaglia (1678?1745) published here for the first time ? they are probably the first of their type ever to appear in a modern edition ? are excellently crafted examples of their type, revealing an unexpectedly racy side of their composer, a Benedictine monk. One is a set of instructions for a shopping trip given by a nun to her aged servant, and the other is a woman?s catty description of the rise from rags to riches of one of her neighbours through prostitution. The editions come with translations of the texts and a brief note on the pronunciation of Venetian.
| Verlag: | Edition HH |
|---|---|
| EAN: | 9990900865605 |
| Komponist: | Bigaglia, Diogenio |
| Verlag: | Edition HH |
| Untertitel: | soprano and basso continuo Full score and parts |
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