Giovanni Battista De Vecchis and the theory of melodic accent from Zarlino to Zingarelli

This article investigates Niccolo' Zingarelli’s method of text-setting, as documented in Giovanni Battista De Vecchis’s Compendio of Neapolitan teachings (1850). It contextualizes De Vecchis’s instructions by tracing the genealogy of the concept of ‘accent’ as understood by early nineteenth-cen...

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Main Author: Baragwanath, Nicholas
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press 2014
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33846/