Solo English cantatas and Italian odes of Thomas A. Arne
By: by Paul F. Rice
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Newcastle upong Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9781527545052; 9781527543867
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Cantatas; History and criticism; Cantates; Histoire et critique
Description: This study examines Thomas Arne's solo cantatas and Italian odes from musical, literary and social perspectives. Arne composed these works between 1740 and 1774. As such, they provide a means of evaluating the evolving aspects of his musical style throughout his compositional career. The Italian odes have been little-studied, but provide an important gloss on Charles Burney's comments on Arne's inability to set the Italian language. Study of the cantata texts that Arne set reveals that they are often pastiches which make use of the words of William Congreve, Alexander Pope, Christopher Smart a.