Music In The Baroque Era - From Monteverdi To Bach by Manfred F. Bukofzer

Author:Manfred F. Bukofzer [Bukofzer, Manfred F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Read Books Ltd.
Published: 2013-04-16T03:00:00+00:00

From Christopher Simpson’s The Division Violist

Frontispiece to the libretto of Reinhold Keiser’s “Lucretia”

The Psalms in an edition with flower pictures

from Lust und Artzeney-Garten des Propheten Davids, 1675

Scarlatti’s opera style brought two important innovations: the vigorous development of continuo-homophony and the transfer of the concerto style to the aria. The clear-cut separation between secco recitative and aria became definitive and absolute; the resources of tonality endowed the recitative with the luxuriant harmonies that distinguish the late baroque recitative from the earlier one. The downward skip of the fourth was formalized as the obligatory cliché of the recitative cadence. It must be noted, however, that Scarlatti’s formal and harmonic innovations appear distinctly only in the works of his late period.

Ex. 74. Provenzale: Aria from La Stellidastra.

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