Carlo Milanuzzi's Quarto Scherzo and the Climate of Venetian Popular Music in the 1620s

Although music publishing in Italy was on the decline around the turn of the seventeenth century, Venice emerged as one of the most prolific publishing centers of secular song in Italy throughout the first three decades of the 1600s. Many Venetian song collections were printed with alfabeto, a chordal tablature designed to facilitate even the most untrained of musicians with the necessary tools for accompanying singers on the fashionable five-course Spanish guitar. Carlo Milanuzzi's Quarto Scherzo (1624) stands out among its contemporary Venetian song collections with alfabeto as an anthology of Venetian secular songs, including compositions by Miniscalchi, Berti, and Claudio and Francesco Monteverdi. Issues surrounding its publication, instrumentation, and musical and poetic style not only contribute to the understanding of Venetian Baroque monody, but also help to construe a repertory of vocal music with defining characteristics usually associated with popular music of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2001

Author dc:creator

• Gavito, Cory Michael

Contributors dc:contributor

• Bush, Deanna D.
• Collins, Michael
• Sovik, Thomas Paul

• Milanuzzi, Carlo, d. ca. 1647. Ariose vaghezze, 4. libro.
• Music -- Italy -- Venice -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
• Music publishing -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- 17th century.
• Carlo Milanuzzi
• Venetian music
• secular music
• alfabeto notation
• Ive-course Spanish guitar

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• Public
• Copyright
• Gavito, Cory Michael
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

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