Two comic cantatas in Venetian
Produktnummer:
11112093
Titel: "Two comic cantatas in Venetian "
The eighteenth century saw a great increase in secular music for solo voice and continuo set to texts in Venetian, then a recognized literary language rather than a mere Italian dialect. 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 – probably the first of their type ever to appear in a modern edition – are excellently crafted, revealing an unexpectedly racy side to the composer, a Benedictine monk. One is a set of shopping instructions given by a nun to her aged servant; the other is a woman’s catty description of the rise from rags to riches of one of her neighbours through prostitution. The edition comes with translations of the texts and a brief note on Venetian pronunciation.
| Ausgabe: | Partitur und Stimme |
|---|---|
| Besetzung: | Sopran und Basso Continuo |
| Komponist: | Bigaglia, Diogenio |
| EAN: | 9790708185109 |
| Verlag: | Edition HH Limited |