Il trionfo della Poesia, e della Musica / Benedetto Marcello ; edited by Michael Burden.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marcello, Benedetto, 1686-1739 (Composer, Librettist)
Other Authors: Burden, Michael, 1960- (Editor), Vitelleschi, Giulio (Librettist), Pobjoy, Mark (Translator)
Format: Musical Score
Language:Italian
Published: Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., [2016]
Series:Recent researches in the music of the Baroque Era ; v. 191.
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Uniform Title:Trionfo della poesia e della musica
Description
Item Description:Oratorio, probably written for the feast of the Assumption for the church of San Giovanni, a Jesuit institution in Macerata, in the Marche region of Italy.
For solo voices (Musica [S], Poesia [A], SATB), chorus (SATB), and string orchestra (2 violins, viola, basso continuo).
Librettist unknown; possibly by Giulio Vitelleschi and/or the composer.
Figured bass unrealized.
Edited from manuscript scores in the Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, Brussels (Ms II 3931 Mus Fétis 2173) and Rowe Music Library, King's College, Cambridge (Rowe MS 204), and manuscript libretto in the Archivio Doria Pamphilj, Rome (no. 289).
Includes introduction and critical report.
Appendix contains an alternative ending for part 1 of the oratorio.
Physical Description:1 score (xxxii, 274 pages, 4 pages of plates) : facsimiles ; 31 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780895798336
0895798336
ISSN:0484-0828 ;
Language:Italian words; also printed as text with English translation by Mark Pobjoy on pages xvii-xxxii.
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