2 Comic Cantatas in Venetian Soprano and Bc - Diogenio Bigaglia

Michael Talbot

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Bigaglia 2 Comic Cantatas in Venetian Soprano and Bc (Michael Talbot) Bigaglia 2 Comic Cantatas in Venetian Soprano and Bc (Michael Talbot) Bigaglia 2 Comic Cantatas in Venetian Soprano and Bc (Michael Talbot)
Bigaglia 2 Comic Cantatas in Venetian Soprano and Bc (Michael Talbot)

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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.

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  • 1. Donn'Elena, seu qua?
  • 2. Putte, cosa dixeu?

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HH500FSP

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ISBN:

9781910359938

9790708185109

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926444

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