Thesis--University of Washington. / Vita. Another copy has number: Thesis 26956. Bibliography: leaves 348-357.

Thesis (D.M.A.)--Boston University / Francesco Cavalli was the most renowned composer of opera in seventeenth-century Venice. Though Cavalli's operas have enjoyed a surge in popularity and interest in recent years, his sacred works remain largely unknown. Cavalli published only a small portion of his compositional output, and his Musiche Sacre Concernenti of 1656 contains the largest source of his acred music in concertato style, representing a fusion of his sacred and secular compositional worlds. The purpose of this study is threefold. The first is to provide a modern performing edition of each motet governed by the same editorial principles that will serve scholars and performers by providing a performing edition based on the Gesamtausgabe tradition of complete works of a single composer. The second is to explore the musical, liturgical, and historical context and significance of his motets as pertains to executing an informed performance. The third is to promote the music of Francesco Cavalli in general. The motets of the collection include eleven psalms, five hymns, the Magnificat, and the four Marion antiphons, employable in various Vesper services of the liturgical year. Part I of this study will serve as the Critical Commentary to the edition. Chapter 1 examines Cavalli's life and work. Chapter 2 contains analyses of the motets. Chapter 3 discusses the liturgical contexts of the motets as well as the historical background of the collection in relation to Seicento Venice. Chapter 4 explores issues of performance practice such as ensemble size, voicing, the appropriate choice of instruments, pitch center, continuo practice, tempo, metric relationships, coronas, dynamics, and missing verses. Part II will present the performing edition of each motet in full score with a critical report. Sources and editorial methods will be discussed, and detailed critical notes will be provided. Appendices including the motets' texts, translations, and instrumental parts are provided.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Brandeis University, 1999. / "UMI:9917894." Includes bibliographical references (p. 638-644).

This dissertation examines four operas created by the composer Franceso Cavalli and the librettist Giovanni Faustini at the Teatro Sant'Apollinare in Venice in 1651-1652 with regard to the relationship between musical dramaturgy and stage performance. All four operas--L'Oristeo, La Rosinda, La Calisto, and L'Eritrea--are preserved in manuscript scores that are part of the Contarini Collection in the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana. Annotations in these sources document the complex process of rehearsing at the Sant'Apollinare and the ways that multiple considerations of production (including vocal casting, staging, and scenography) interacted with the evolving musico-dramatic structure. Several of these operas were revived later in the seventeenth century in new theatrical circumstances: L'Oristeo was revived as L'Oristeo travestito in Bologna in 1656; La Rosinda was reworked and presented under the title Le magie amorose in Naples in 1653; and L'Eritrea received multiple productions (including a Venetian revival at the Teatro San Salvatore in 1661). These case studies provide a fuller view of the relationship between Venetian opera aesthetics and the exigencies of performance on the seventeenth-century stage. Modifications to the original dramaturgy--such as inserted arias and sinfonie, added secondary comic characters, and cuts to recitative--were made with careful regard to the scenography of each production. This analysis demonstrates the critical importance of stagecraft in the interpretation of this repertoire both historically and in modern edition and performance.

This study has been conceived to verify whether Francesco Cavalli (Crema, 1602--Venice, 1676), the most representative composer of seventeenth-century Venetian opera, used what is called "key symbolism." Key symbolism, or the association of one particular mood or meaning with one specific key, has been a topos in music theory literature ever since Plato and Aristotle. Many scholars maintain that early modern composers believed in the connotative power of the keys and selected them according to the "affect" they meant to convey. These assumptions are mostly based on the treatises of the time and significant examples, but key symbolism had never been investigated systematically as a poetic code. This study on key symbolism focused on the identification of patterns in the associations of the expressive content ("affect" or "affection") and the key of Cavalli's arias. Arias represent the best place to investigate this association because they form semantic and musical units. Cavalli's twenty-seven extant operas include more than 850 arias and, thus, provide a sufficient sampling for testing the consistency of these patterns in the work of the same composer. My analysis and categorization of Cavalli's arias, which resulted in the compilation of a complete thematic catalogue, was based directly on the manuscript sources of the Contarini Collection held by the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice, and the collection of librettos owned by the same library. This study on Cavalli's key selection determined the following points: 1) the complete spectrum of the keys actually used by Cavalli, and how his tonal palette compares with the one proposed by contemporary theorists; 2) how practical factors, such as orchestration or the voice of the singer, influenced Cavalli's choice of the key; 3) the frequency with which the composer associated recurring topics in arias with particular tonalities; 4) whether Cavalli's usage is consistent with the connotations of the keys described in theoretical literature; and, finally, 5) whether the association of a topic with a key is systematic enough to be considered a poetical code. In the end it appears that Cavalli's choice of the key was certainly influenced but not determined by the content of the text. On the one hand, it is possible to identify some of the affective characteristics he attributed to keys; on the other hand, the link between the key (signifier) and the expressive content of the aria text (signified) cannot be codified as a system of meanings.

Le travail de recherche ici présenté porte sur l’analyse de l’écriture poétique de trois femmes écrivains italiennes contemporaines : Antonella Anedda (1955), Patrizia Cavalli (1947) et Mariangela Gualtieri (1951). Nous avons décidé d’aborder ce corpus sur la base de certains acquis théoriques de la psychanalyse lacanienne. L’hypothèse de départ repose sur l’idée que le texte poétique, en raison de son statut particulier au sein du langage, nécessite d’être interrogé à partir d’une réflexion scrupuleuse à propos de la relation entre inconscient et langage. Nous avons développé une conception du texte poétique qui prend appui sur deux élaborations majeures de Jacques Lacan, à savoir l’inconscient comme espace du sujet manque-à-être et l’inconscient parlêtre. À partir de là, nous avons défini le texte comme lieu de coexistence de deux univers distincts : celui du Symbolique, qui relève du glissement incessant du sujet sur la chaîne signifiante ; celui du Réel, qui relève de la langue singulière, opaque et indéchiffrable qui habite tout être parlant. Il s’est par conséquent avéré nécessaire de questionner en profondeur les problématiques de l’énonciation et de l’interprétation. Le concept lacanien de pas-tout, étroitement lié à la question féminine, nous a guidé dans l’élaboration d’une éthique de la lecture du texte qui vise à ne pas négliger sa dimension réelle, corporelle et irréductible. Nous avons ensuite testé notre approche à travers l’analyse du corpus poétique choisi. Interroger le mode d’énonciation spécifique de chacune des trois poétesses convoquées, nous a permis de donner la parole à trois voix majeures de la poésie italienne contemporaine. Les écritures de Anedda, Cavalli et Gualtieri se sont ainsi imposées non seulement comme trois expériences tout à fait originales dans le panorama de la poésie italienne de ces dernières années, mais surtout comme trois réponses complexes et différentes par rapport à la problématique de la subjectivité contemporaine / The research presented here concerns the analysis of the poetic writing of three contemporary Italian women writers: Antonella Anedda (1955), Patrizia Cavalli (1947) and Mariangela Gualtieri (1951). We decided to approach this corpus on the basis of certain theories of Lacanian psychoanalysis. The starting hypothesis rests on the idea that poetic text, because of its particular status within language, needs to be examined on the basis of scrupulous reflection on the relation between the unconscious and language. We have developed a notion of poetic text that is based on two major approaches by Jacques Lacan, namely the unconscious as the space of the subject manque-à-être and the unconscious parlêtre. From this point on, we have defined the text as the place of coexistence of two distinct universes: that of the Symbolic, which refers to the incessant sliding of the subject on the chain of signifiers, and that of the Real, which is singular, opaque and indecipherable lalangue, which inhabits every speaking being. It has therefore proved necessary to question the issues of enunciation and interpretation in depth. The Lacanian concept of pas-tout, closely linked to the feminine question, has guided us in the formulation of an ethic of reading the text that aims not to neglect its real, corporeal and irreducible dimension. We then tested our approach through the analysis of the chosen poetic corpus. Examining the specific mode of enunciation of each of the three poets referred to has allowed us to give a voice to three major exemples of contemporary Italian poetry. The writings of Anedda, Cavalli and Gualtieri have thus established themselves not only as three completely original experiments in the panorama of Italian poetry of recent years, but above all as three complex and different answers in relation to the issues of contemporary subjectivity.

À partir des années soixante-dix les femmes poètes s'affirment avec énergie dans le panorama littéraire italien. Bien que leur présence dans les anthologies les plus reconnues soit encore assez réduite, leurs écritures poétiques se caractérisent par une puissante originalité. L'objectif de cette thèse est d'étudier ces productions poétiques tout en s'interrogeant sur la possibilité d'identifier des éléments communs. Il ne s'agit pas de définir une spécificité féminine dans une perspective essentialiste, mais d'interpréter certaines données textuelles en se référant à un contexte historique et culturel bien défini. Le corpus de travail comprends les œuvres des femmes poètes suivantes: Amelia Rosselli (1930-1996), Alda Merini (1931), Jolanda Insana (1937), Patrizia Cavalli (1947) et Patrizia Valduga (1953). Afin de respecter les singularités de chaque écriture poétique et d’éviter des simplifications réductrices, nous avons accordé la priorité à l'analyse textuelle et organisé les chapitres selon une approche monographique plutôt que thématique. L'analyse révèle que ces femmes poètes abordent avec obstination trois nœuds problématiques: elles développent une réflexion sur la valeur de la langue poétique, ont tendance à structurer leur poésie autour d'oppositions fortes et irréductibles, et, enfin, font souvent appel à des éléments de type théâtral. Ces caractéristiques sont interprétées en considérant le rapport ambigu et contradictoire que le sujet féminin entretient avec le code poétique: il ressent un fort besoin d'inscription dans la langue poétique, mais aussi un sens d'extranéité. Cette tradition qui lui est chère ne lui appartient pas complètement car il a été exclu de son élaboration. / As from the seventies women poets assert themselves with energy in the Italian literary survey. Even if their presence in the most famous anthologies is curtailed, their poetic writings are characterized by a powerful originality. The aim of this thesis is to study their poetic production inquiring into the possibility of common elements. It’s not about defining a female specificity from an essentialist point of view, the purpose is rather to interpret some textual data with reference to a well-defined historical and cultural context. The study corpus includes works of the following Italian woman poets: Amelia Rosselli (1930-1996), Alda Merini (1931), Jolanda Insana (1937), Patrizia Cavalli (1947) and Patrizia Valduga (1953). In order to respect the particularities of every writing and to avoid hasty and restrictive simplifications, a great importance has been conferred to the textual analysis and the chapters have been arranged according to a monographic approach rather than a thematic structure. The result of the research demonstrates that contemporary Italian women poets attend insistently three knotty problems: they develop a reflection about the power of poetic language, they display a tendency to structure their verse on strong oppositions without appeasing synthesis and they often resort to dramatic elements. These characteristics can be interpreted referring to the double and conflicting position of the female subject towards poetic code: this new subject needs to inscribe himself in the poetic language, but he also feels a sense of extraneousness. The tradition he loves doesn’t belong completely to him as he was left out of its elaboration.

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Although early Venetian operas by composers such as Claudio Monteverdi and Francesco Cavalli offer today's listeners profound moments of emotion, the complex codes of meaning connecting emotion (or affect) with music in this repertoire are different from those of later seventeenth-century operatic repertoire. The specific textual and musical markers that librettists and composers used to indicate individual emotions in these operas were historically and culturally contingent, and many scholars thus consider them to be inaccessible to listeners today. This dissertation demonstrates a new analytical framework that is designed to identify the specific combinations of elements that communicate each lifelike emotion in this repertoire. Re-establishing the codes that govern the relationship between text, musical sound, and affect in this repertoire illuminates the nuanced emotional language of operas by composers such as Claudio Monteverdi, Francesco Cavalli, Antonio Cesti, and Francesco Lucio. The new analytical framework that underlies this study derives from analysis of seventeenth-century Venetian explanations and depictions of emotional processes, which reveal a basis in their society's underlying Aristotelian philosophy. Chapters III and IV examine extant documents from opera librettists, composers, audience members, and their associates to reveal how they understood emotions to work in the mind and body. These authors, many of whom were educated by Aristotelian scholars at the nearby University of Padua, understood action and emotion to be bound together in a reciprocal, causal relationship, and this synthesis was reflected in the way that they depicted affect in opera. It also guided the ways that singer-actors performed and audiences interpreted this music. In contrast, post-1660 Baroque operas from France and Italy express affect according to the musical conventions of the Doctrine of Affections (based in the ideas of René Descartes) and aim to present a single, clear emotion for each large semantic unit (recitative or aria). This paradigm does not hold true for operas composed before 1660; thus, this vibrant repertoire requires a new analytical approach that respects its pre-Cartesian musical aesthetics. Early Venetian opera composers express not just one, but many affects in each semantic unit. In their operas, musical sound interacts directly with text and dramatic action on a line-by-line basis to produce an unprecedented fluidity of emotional meaning. Chapter II describes a new analytical framework based in this understanding to reveal the means that librettists, composers, and performers used to communicate emotion in this repertoire. Chapters V through X contain hermeneutic and musical analyses (according to the method described in Chapter II) of case studies drawn from Venetian operas performed between 1640 and 1658. These chapters illustrate how this repertoire uses a flexible but well-defined system of musical and textual markers to convey characters' emotions. This new approach unlocks an aesthetic system that privileges the fluid, real-time emotional reactions of the individual in accordance with Aristotelian emotional understanding. In Chapters XI and XII, supporting information gleaned from seventeenth-century acting treatises, reception documents, and conduct books enables an examination of the singer's role in depicting these textual and musical representations of affect in performance. These two chapters address seventeenth-century views on affective communication through voice acting and physical gesture, together with recommendations for today's singers who perform this repertoire. In taking a systematic approach to the identification of specific textual, musical, and gestural means for communicating affect in early Venetian opera, this dissertation offers a new approach to analyzing and performing its dynamic emotional content.