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Soluzioni metriche e motivi poetici nei testi intonati da Benedetto Ferrari e Nicolò Fontei
| Author | Nicola Badolato |
| Series | Recercare - Rivista per lo studio e la pratica della musica antica - Journal for the study and practice of early music |
| Nr. | XXX/1-2 2018 |
| Size | 17×24, pp. 250 (33-62) |
| Year | 2018 |
| ISBN | 9788870969900 |
The article focuses on the main literary topoi and the most significant metric solutions adopted in some Venetian collections of vocal music such as the Musiche varie by Benedetto Ferrari (1634, 1637 and 1641) and the Bizzarrie poetiche by Nicolò Fontei (1635, 1636 and 1639), based on poems by Battista Guarini, Giambattista Marino, Giulio Strozzi, Gian Francesco Busenello, Ottavio Orsucci and Pier Francesco Paoli, as well as Ferrari himself. It attempts a first critical study of the choices made by these two high ranking seventeenth–century century composers: references to the late sixteenth-century madrigal tradition on the one hand, with their particular predilection for amorous–pastoral themes, and the impertinent and desecratory style of Venetian academic poetry on the other, both in dialogue with the literary trends of the nascent entrepreneurial opera.
Nicola Badolato is lecturer at the University of Bologna. He completed the Ph.D. in Musicology and Musical Heritage (University of Bologna, 2007), and also holds degrees in Piano and Harpsichord. In 2007, he held a post-doctoral research fellowship from Yale University. He has published critical editions of librettos by Carlo Maria Maggi (2010), Giovanni Faustini (2012) and Benedetto Ferrari (2013), and the monograph «All’occhio, all’udito ed al pensiero». Gli allestimenti operistici romani di Filippo Juvarra per Pietro Ottoboni e Maria Casimira di Polonia (2016). Since 2012 he has been a collaborator for the critical edition of Francesco Cavalli’s operas, of which he co-edited La Calisto (with Álvaro Torrente) and L’Erismena (with Jonathan Glixon). Together with Marco Beghelli he edited the Carteggio Verdi-Waldmann (2014). He has also published the critical edition of Alessandro Scarlatti’s Il Ciro (2017). He is a member of the editorial board of the journals Musica docta and Il Saggiatore musicale.
nicola.badolato@unibo.it
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