Aspects of the Secular Cantata in Late Baroque Italy

Contents

• Contents: Preface
• The when and how of Arioso in Stradella's cantatas, Carolyn Gianturco
• A lost volume of cantatas and serenatas from the 'original Stradella collection', Colin Timms
• Narration, mimesis and the question of genre: dramatic approaches in Giovanni Legrenzi's solo cantatas Opp 12 and 14, Hendrik Schulze
• A tale of 2 cities: cantata publication in Bologna and Venice, c.1650-1700, Reinmar Emans
• 'Al tavilino medesimo del compositor della musica': notes on text and context in Alessandro Scarlatti's cantate da camera, Norbert Dubowy
• Bononcini's 'agreeable and easie style, and those fine inventions in his Basses (to which he was led by an instrument upon which he excels)', Lowell Lindgren
• The 'humble' and 'sublime' genres, the pastoral and heroic styles: rhetorical metamorphoses in Benedetto Marcello's cantatas, Marco Bizzarini
• Investigations into the cantata in Naples during the first half of the 18th century: the cantatas by Leonardo Vinci contained in a 'Neapolitan' manuscript, Giulia Veneziano
• The orchestral French cantata (1706-1730): performance, edition and classification of a neglected repertory, Graham Sadler
• Patterns and strategies of modulation in cantata recitatives, Michael Talbot
• 'Imitando l'Arietta, A(2) altro allegro, cantata di fresco': keyboard realization in Italian continuo arias, Giulia Nuti
• The revival of the Italian chamber cantata on disc: models and trends, Roger-Claude Travers
• Bibliography
• Indexes.