The "stile moderno" or modern style is usually applied to the new declamatory vocal style that emerged in Italy around 1600. But instrumental music as well as vocal music underwent a revolution around that time, and whether or not a Florentine of the time would have used it, the term "stile moderno" is relevant to the music on this album. On offer here are instrumental sonatas for a small chamber group, mostly from the generation after Girolamo Frescobaldi. Most of the pieces are played by a pair of violins, perhaps a ...
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The "stile moderno" or modern style is usually applied to the new declamatory vocal style that emerged in Italy around 1600. But instrumental music as well as vocal music underwent a revolution around that time, and whether or not a Florentine of the time would have used it, the term "stile moderno" is relevant to the music on this album. On offer here are instrumental sonatas for a small chamber group, mostly from the generation after Girolamo Frescobaldi. Most of the pieces are played by a pair of violins, perhaps a trombone or dulcian (an early bassoon), and a continuo group with several instruments. The composers aren't well known, and such names as Dario Castello and Giovanni Battista Fontana deserve more exposure. The music exploits rapid scalar figures and virtuoso decorations, deployed so as to create sudden dramatic contrasts; these sonatas are very much instrumental counterparts of the music from Monteverdi's Orfeo and its operatic successors. A varied program of instrumental sonatas from...
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Add this copy of Quicksilver to cart. $4.69, good condition, Sold by Bookmans rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Tucson, AZ, UNITED STATES, published 2011 by Acis Productions.
Add this copy of Quicksilver to cart. $4.69, good condition, Sold by Valleys Books & More rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Roanoke, VA, UNITED STATES, published 2011 by Acis Productions.
