Nicola Porpora and the cantabile cello

Title: Nicola Porpora and the cantabile cello
Creator: Halton, Rosalind
Relation: Nicola Porpora: Musicista Europeo: Le Corti, I Teatri, I Cantanti, I Librettisti p. 303-336
Relation: http://www.librerianeapolis.it/libri-84159/54-musicologia/2345-nicola-porpora-musicista-europeo-le-corti-i-teatri-i-cantanti-i-librettisti-nicolo-maccavino
Publisher: Laruffa Editore
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2011
Description: The music of Nicola Porpora is deservedly famous for the composer’s mastery of vocal idiom. The subject of this paper, however, is the significance of Porpora’s vocal music in relation to the voice of the violoncello. Following the example of Stefano La Via, I suggest that the evolution of violoncello style in the early Eighteenth Century owes much to its association with the voice, with poetic diction, and imagery. In Rome Corelli developed a style of violin writing apparently without reference to singing, but cellists in his orchestra such as Giovan Lorenzo Lulier, Giovanni Bononcini, Filippo (‘Pippo’) Amadei, were distinguished in composing vocal music. Cellists of the late Seventeenth-Century orchestras in Rome and Naples worked constantly with singers, in genres of private as well as public music-making.
Subject: Nicola Porpora; vocal music; cello; Neapolitan composers
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1049109
Identifier: uon:14994
Identifier: ISBN:9788872215548
Language: eng

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