Presentation Type
Oral Presentation
Keywords
Music, Cantata, Baroque, Italy, Italian music, poetics, secular vocal music, Seicento, Barbara Strozzi
Department
Music
Major
Vocal Performance
Abstract
In this study, I seek to explore the poetical and musical language of the "cantata" genre of Baroque secular vocal music. The focus is on Italian poetry and music of the Seicento (1600s) with a particular focus on the works of Barbara Strozzi, who was a prominent female composer of the time. I will examine the poetry that Strozzi used in her compositions from a socio-historical standpoint, which will enable a better understanding of how the poetry was written and why the poetry was written in that manner. I will also examine Strozzi’s personal compositional style through the way she set the poetry.
Faculty Mentor
Patrizia Lissoni
Funding Source or Research Program
Summer Undergraduate Research Program
Presentation Session
Session B
Location
Plaza Classroom 189
Start Date
21-3-2014 4:00 PM
Included in
A Look at the Musical and Poetical Language of Secular Vocal Music of the Seicento through Selected Works by Barbara Strozzi
Plaza Classroom 189
In this study, I seek to explore the poetical and musical language of the "cantata" genre of Baroque secular vocal music. The focus is on Italian poetry and music of the Seicento (1600s) with a particular focus on the works of Barbara Strozzi, who was a prominent female composer of the time. I will examine the poetry that Strozzi used in her compositions from a socio-historical standpoint, which will enable a better understanding of how the poetry was written and why the poetry was written in that manner. I will also examine Strozzi’s personal compositional style through the way she set the poetry.