Diva over Divine: Towards a Historically Informed Performance of the Sacred Solo Motet in Early-Eighteenth Century VeniceTools Sarginson, Rebecca L. (2021) Diva over Divine: Towards a Historically Informed Performance of the Sacred Solo Motet in Early-Eighteenth Century Venice. MA(Res) thesis, University of Nottingham.
AbstractIn preparation for a performance, a musician may ask “how was it performed?”; “how could it be performed?”; “Can I perform it in a similar way to...?”. For singers wishing to perform the music for solo voice heard in the sacred institutions of early-eighteenth century Italy, the questions are left unanswered. In the broad field of vocal performance practice, the corner in which eighteenth-century sacred vocal music stands remains in shadow. Histories of eighteenth-century music skim the surface of sacred repertoire and leave the genres, and their performance, undisturbed. Those that do illumine the sections of this rich history often stay at the surface and write overviews of a genre in a location. A lack of study has left much repertoire neglected and so modern performers lack the knowledge to access the repertoire and realise it in performances. In a bid to suggest answers to the questions of a performer, I have chosen to investigate the performance of the solo motet in the context of sacred 1720-50s Venice.
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