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From Mantua to Vienna: A New Look at the Early Seventeenth-Century Dance Suite
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2020
Abstract
There is a gaping hole in the instrumental chamber-music literature at the Habsburg court of Vienna in the early seventeenth century. Of the composers in the employ of Emperor Ferdinand II, Giovanni Battista Buonamente was the only one to publish instrumental chamber works; but Buonamente's origins were Mantuan and the contents of his publications reflect the influence of the sinfonie, sonatas and dances by the leading Mantuan instrumental music composer Salamone Rossi. The similarities raise various questions. How does the Mantuan-born empress Eleonora impress her musical tastes on the Viennese court? To what extent is the Mantuan exemplar operative in Viennese instrumental music, particularly dances? How do the dance works of both Rossi and Buonamente relate to the incipient suite? And what new evidence can be brought to bear on the ordering of its constituents to form a larger construct?
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The present article underwent various redactions, first as a contribution to a volume of proceedings for a conference on 1,000 years of music in Austria (Ottawa, 1996), from which the scheduled publisher had at the last minute to withdraw his support, then in a new, revised version for this journal. I thank the various readers, among them Profs. Peter Allsop (University of Exeter), Andrew Dell'Antonio (University of Texas, Austin) and Harry White (University College, Dublin), who, along the way, shaped my thoughts with their helpful suggestions.Google Scholar
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67 ‘Bassa honorata’ (ibid., 235–6).Google Scholar
68 ‘Amor costante’ (ibid., 228–9).Google Scholar
69 ‘Cortesia’ (ibid., 297–8).Google Scholar
70 ‘Selva amorosa’ (ibid., 310–12).Google Scholar
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72 ‘Laura suave’ (ibid., 165–72).Google Scholar
73 ‘Altezza d'amore’, ‘Nido d'amore’ (ibid., 208–10, 268–9).Google Scholar
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94 Cf. Book 1, sinfonie 12 and 15; Book 2, sinfonie 2, 15 and 21.Google Scholar
95 Book 3, sonatas 1–2; Book 4, sonatas 1–4.Google Scholar
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100 The only known Viennese instrumental publication from the seventeenth century is Johann Heinrich Schmelzer's Arie per il balletto a cavallo (1667), with the imprint ‘Matteo Cosmerovio, Stampatore della Corte’. Other Austrian cities are no less meagrely represented in the literature (Jena, eight publications; Innsbruck, five; Salzburg, four). See Whitehead, ‘Austro-German Printed Sources’, for chronological listings covering Germany as well: for the 1630s, nos. 541–8 (in all, eight publications); for the 1640s, nos. 549–62 (14); for the 1650s, nos. 563–80 (18); and so on. Why the restriction, in his monograph, to the years after 1630? Because, according to the author, ‘it is in the period after 1630 that one can plot what is arguably the most interesting and important phase in the development of the Austro-German ensemble suite’ (p. 2).Google Scholar
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104 To which Monteverdi refers in various letters to the duchess Caterina (5 March, 27 November 1621) and Marigliani (17 April, 10 September 1621). See The Letters of Claudio Monteverdi, trans. Denis Stevens (rev. edn, Oxford, 1995), 233–5, 243–8. For Bertazzolo's references to the intermedi, without mention, however, of their composer, see Breve relatione, 8, 14, 21–2 (and, for synopsis of their content, 22–5).Google Scholar
105 ‘[…] mentre si suonò con l'Organo, et diversi istromenti un bellissimo concerto’ (ibid., 46).Google Scholar
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107 ‘[…] il Te Deum, qual fu cantato solennissimamente da i Musici di S.[acra] M.[aestà] [= Ferdinand II] con melodia si può dir singolarissima, sì per la qualità della Musica, come per il numero, et isquisitezza delle voci, et istromenti’ (ibid., 61).Google Scholar
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110 ‘Però, dopo haver consumato in ciò alquanto di tempo’ (ibid.).Google Scholar
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