Venetian Music in the Age of Vivaldi

Contents

• Contents: Introduction
• Acknowledgements
• Music in Venice: Musical academies in eighteenth-century Venice
• Tenors and basses at the Venetian Ospedali
• Vivaldi: Vivaldi and the empire
• Vivaldi's Serenatas: long cantatas or short operas?
• Vivaldi's 'Manchester' sonatas
• Vivaldi's conch concerto
• A Vivaldi sonata with obbligato organ in Dresden
• Lingua romana in bocca veneziana: Vivaldi, Corelli and the Roman School
• Vivaldi and Rome: observations and hypotheses
• Vivaldi's sacred music: the three periods
• New light on Vivaldi's Stabat Mater
• Other Venetian Composers: The function and character of the instrumental ritornello in the solo cantatas of Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751)
• Albinoni's oboe concertos
• The effects of music: Benedetto Marcello's cantata Il Timoteo
• The Marcian motets of Benedetto Vinaccesi
• The Taiheg, the Pira and other curiosities of Benedetto Vinaccesi's Suonate da camera a tre, Op. 1
• Addenda and Corrigenda
• Index of musical works and collections
• Index of names.