1st Edition
The canzone villanesca alla napolitana Social, Cultural and Historical Contexts
By Donna G. Cardamone
Copyright 2008
348 Pages
by
Routledge
346 Pages
by
Routledge
348 Pages
by
Routledge
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The printed debut of the canzone villanesca alla napolitana occurred on 24 October 1537, in Naples. Fifteen anonymous 'rustic songs' were published by Johannes de Colonia in a pocket-sized anthology with a cover featuring three women with hoes tilling the soil. The adjective villanesca (from villano or peasant) in the strict sense of the word means rustic or crude, but in this new context it also... Read more
Contents: Introduction; The debut of the canzone villanesca alla napolitana; Musical and metrical forms of the canzone villanesca and villanella alla napolitana; Madrigali a tre et arie napolitane: a typographical and repertorial study; The Prince of Salerno and the dynamics of oral transmission in songs of political exile; Orlando di Lasso and pro-French factions in Rome; A colorful bouquet of arie napolitane; The salon as marketplace in the 1550s: patrons and collectors of Lasso's secular music; Guilio Bonagiunta: a composer with a progressive attitude; Orlando di Lasso et al.: a new reading of the Roman villanella book (1555); Erotic jest and gesture in Roman anthologies of Neapolitan dialect songs; Indexes.
Biography
Donna Cardamone Jackson died in 2009. Before her retirement in 2007 she taught for 38 years at the University of Minnesota,
’Donna Cardamone has been the leading expert on the canzone villanesca alla napolitana, a genre of Neapolitan song of popular character, for more than thirty years.’ Music and Letters
