Significance and effect of the stile antico in Handel's oratorios

Early Music ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 563-574
Author(s):  
M. Kim
Keyword(s):  
Stile Antico

Learned Style and Learned Styles

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Chapin
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
A Cappella ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Stile Antico

Eighteenth-century writers on music recognized a spectrum of learned styles. These included not only the imitative counterpoint characteristic of the fugue and the species counterpoint associated witha cappellapolyphony, but also a broad range of other styles, such as strict style, church style, orstile antico, transmitted from specialist to specialist over many decades and even centuries. The topic of the learned style, however, was a special formation or intensification of texture that occurred within the norms of late eighteenth-century phrasing, harmony, and texture. The tension between learned styles (each grounded in certain genre traditions) and learned style (the versatile and itinerant topic) informs not only the various manifestations of the learned style, which can be used for various formal purposes, but also its signification, which springs from the concerns of order and tradition that accompanied the transmission of learned styles from generation to generation.

The Virtuoso of Submissiveness

2020 ◽  
pp. 60-109
Author(s):  
Harry White
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Reception History ◽  
Musical Form ◽  
Liturgical Music ◽  
Two Agents ◽  
Musical Works ◽  
History Of ◽  
Musical Traditions ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Stile Antico

This chapter turns to Fux’s engagement with the imperial liturgy and his vigilant custodianship of its received musical traditions. It argues that the principal reception history of Fux as a composer, vested in the ongoing Complete Edition of his works (Gesamtausgabe) inadequately comprehends his actual significance because it privileges his compositions as self-standing musical works. By deconstructing this reception history we can distinguish between Fux’s habitual obedience to the dynastic style (which resulted in a large but blandly-achieved corpus of liturgical music) and two agents of musical refuge which satisfied (by contrast) the composer’s longing for musical form. The first of these is Palestrina and the “stile antico,” through which Fux achieved a much finer corpus of sacred works. The second is the Da capo aria as a model of tonal discourse through which Fux discovered an alternative to the restless changes of texture and technique demanded by the imperial liturgy. Both agents draw Fux into the orbit of Bach. This chapter closes with a comparative analysis of three Da capo arias by each composer. This analysis affirms that the intimacy between musical servitude and imaginative autonomy is of no less significance than the difference between them.

Stile Antico

1969 ◽  
Vol 110 (1519) ◽  
pp. 941
Author(s):  
Jerome Roche ◽  
Gioseffo Zarlino ◽  
Guy A. Marco ◽  
Claude V. Palisca
Keyword(s):  
Stile Antico

Mozart's Archaic Endings: A Linguistic Critique

2005 ◽  
Vol 130 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-196
Author(s):  
Stephen Rumph
Keyword(s):  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Rhetorical Studies ◽  
Stile Antico

Rhetorical studies of Mozart have assumed a rationalist conception of language, ignoring the empiricist model that actually dominated the Enlightenment. The two models, comparable structurally to the stile antico and style galant, collide in Mozart's learned finales. A study of three finales, from the Mass in C minor, the Concerto in E♭, K.449, and Die Entführung aus dem Serail, shows how Mozart negotiated irreducible contradictions within Enlightenment thought by switching between the two models.

TWO MORE NEW VIVALDI FINDS IN DRESDEN

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
JANICE B. STOCKIGT ◽  
MICHAEL TALBOT
Keyword(s):  
Original Composition ◽  
Title Page ◽  
Late Period ◽  
Stile Antico

Two further unknown sacred vocal compositions by Vivaldi, a Dixit Dominus and a Lauda Jerusalem, have turned up in a collection that has already witnessed two similar discoveries in recent decades: that of the former Saxon Hofkapelle, today in the Sächsische Landesbibliothek / Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden. Like their predecessors, the newly discovered works were acquired between the mid-1750s and early 1760s from the copying shop of Iseppo Baldan in Venice, who falsified the attribution on the title page to make the composer Galuppi instead of Vivaldi. Whereas the Lauda Jerusalem is an arrangement by Vivaldi of an anonymous stile antico setting of the same psalm in his own collection (and in turn the model for his own Credidi propter quod, rv605), the Dixit Dominus, scored for choir, soloists and orchestra, is an entirely original composition of outstanding musical quality that dates from the composer’s late period. This article explores the background to the Hofkapelle’s purchases from Baldan and provides a description of the new compositions, together with several arguments (based on musical concordances, general stylistic features and notational characteristics) for their attribution to Vivaldi.

Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Gottfried Walther und die Musik von Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina

Bach-Jahrbuch ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 98 ◽  
pp. 73-93
Author(s):  
Daniel R. Melamed
Keyword(s):  
Johann Sebastian Bach ◽  
Stile Antico

Anhand möglicher und erwiesener personeller Verbindungen, aufgrund von quellenkritischen Überlegungen ebenso wie mittels musikalischer Analysen wird erörtert, inwiefern die Kenntnis von Werken Palestrinas Bachs eigene Kompositionen beeinflusste. Daran anknüpfend wird besprochen, inwieweit das Vorbild von Palestrinas stile antico für mitteldeutsche Komponisten der Bach-Generation überhaupt bedeutend war. Besonders findet Johann G. Walther Erwähnung. Ausgehend von neu aufgefundenen Palestrina-Manuskripten aus Bachs Notenbibliothek, die nachweislich mit Walther in Verbindung stehen, wird die Frage aufgeworfen, inwiefern der Austausch des Weimarer mit dem Weißenfelser Hof mit seiner belegbaren Palestrina-Pflege Anstoß für die Auseinandersetzung beider Komponisten mit dem Italiener war.   Erwähnte Artikel: Karl Gustav Fellerer: J. S. Bachs Bearbeitung der Missa sine nomine von Palestrina. BJ 1927, S. 123-132 Barbara Wiermann: Bach und Palestrina. Neue Quellen aus Johann Sebastian Bachs Notenbibliothek. BJ 2002, S. 9-28 Daniel R. Melamed: Bach und Palestrina - Einige praktische Probleme I. BJ 2003, S. 221-224 Barbara Wiermann: Bach und Palestrina - Einige praktische Probleme II. BJ 2003, S. 225-228

Johann Sebastian Bach – B Minor Mass

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Shrock
Keyword(s):  
Johann Sebastian Bach ◽  
Performance Practices ◽  
Structural Balance ◽  
Musical Structures ◽  
History Of ◽  
Stile Antico

Historical discussion focuses on the lineage of the Bach family, compositions determined by circumstances of employment, the composition of Lutheran Masses, the possible rationale for composing a Catholic Mass, and the history of the B Minor Mass in terms of manuscripts, performances, and editions. Musical discussion focuses on parody technique, the assemblage of four disparate units of composition into the B Minor Mass, comparisons of stile antico and stile moderno characteristics of the Mass, and formal and musical structures of the Mass, with special attention to structural balance and mirror dispositions. Performance practices include singers and instrumentalists and their arrangements in performance, meter as it affects tempo, rhythmic alteration, and ornamentation.

Stile antico

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen R. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Stile Antico
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