Arcangelo Corelli: `New Orpheus of Our Times' (Oxford Monographs on Music) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Arcangelo Corelli: `New Orpheus of Our Times' (Oxford Monographs on Music) Book

A reassessment of composer Arcangelo Corelli's life and works. The common perspective is largely conditioned by late-18th century views of Corelli as a consolidator of past trends rather than an instigator. This book evaluates Corelli as the developer of prime instrumental genres.Read More

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    The first full-length study for forty years, Arcangelo Corelli offers a much needed reassessment of the seminal composer's life and works. His current historical perspective is still largely conditioned by the opinions of Burney and Hawkins in the late 18th century who saw him as the consolidator of past trends rather than an instigator--a view fully endorsed in the two biographies of the present century. Neither of these writers was truly in a position to make such judgements if only because neither was aware of the contributions of the Roman School to which Corelli emphatically affirmed his allegiance. Extensive archival research over recent years now dispels much of the anecdote and hearsay accumulated over the centuries and makes possible a more balanced evaluation of Corelli's true status in the development of the prime instrumental genres, accounting for his phenomenal success both during his lifetime and in the creation of musical canon in the decades after his death.

  • 0198165625
  • 9780198165620
  • Peter Allsop
  • 13 May 1999
  • Clarendon Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 280
  • illustrated edition
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