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The Vincenzo Bellini’s Corso di Contrappunto Manuscript: An Investigation of a New Source of Partimento and Counterpoint Pedagogy in Early Nineteenth-Century Italy

The Figured Bass Accompaniment in Europe International Virtual Conference 9-12 September 2021 Organized by Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca PALMA CHORALIS® . Research Group & Early Music Ensemble Dipartimento di Musica Antica ‘Città di Brescia’ Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini www.luigiboccherini.org International Conference The Figured Bass Accompaniment in Europe Organized by Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca PALMA CHORALIS® ˙ Research Group & Early Music Ensemble Dipartimento di Musica Antica ‘Città di Brescia’ Virtual Conference 9-12 September 2021 Programme Committee • Roberto Illiano (Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini) • Marcello Mazzetti (Palma Choralis, Early Music Department ‘Città di Brescia’) • Fulvia Morabito (Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini) • Massimiliano Sala (Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini) • Livio Ticli (Palma Choralis, Earl

History of opera

Aspect of musical history

The history of opera has a relatively short duration within the context of the history of music in general: it appeared in 1597, when the first opera, Dafne, by Jacopo Peri, was created. Since then it has developed parallel to the various musical currents that have followed one another over time up to the present day, generally linked to the current concept of classical music.

Opera (from the Latin opera, plural of opus, "work") is a musical genre that combines symphonic music, usually performed by an orchestra, and a written dramatic text—expressed in the form of a libretto—interpreted vocally by singers of different tessitura: tenor, baritone, and bass for the male register, and soprano, mezzo-soprano, and contralto for the female, in addition to the so-called white voices (those of children) or in falsetto (castrato, countertenor). Generally, the musical work contains overtures, interludes and musical accompaniments, while the sung part can be in choir or solo, duet, trio, or various combinations, in different structu

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Vincenzo BELLINI(1801-1835)
Il Pirata - Melodramma in two acts (1827)
Ernesto, Duke of Caldora and Anjou partisan - Ludovic Tézier (baritone); Imogene, Ernesto’s wife, previously in love with Gualtiero - Carmen Giannattasio (soprano); Gualtiero, Count of Moltanto, now an Aragonese pirate leader - José Bros (tenor); Itulbo, companion of Gualtiero - Mark Le Brocq (tenor); Il solitario, a hermit and former tutor of Gualtiero - Brindley Sherratt (bass), Adele, Imogene’s chief lady in waiting - Victoria Simmonds (mezzo)
London Philharmonic Orchestra. Geoffrey Mitchell Choir/David Parry
rec. Henry Wood Hall, London, March/April 2010
OPERA RARA ORC45 [3 CDs: 39.02 + 46.49 + 73.37] 


Vincenzo Bellini was born in Catania, Sicily, during the night of 2 November 1801. Both his father and grandfather were musicians, the later having settled in Catania from central Italy. Despite Vincenzo’s early signs of musical precocity, and the fam

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