You Who Hear in these Scattered Rhymes…
THE ART OF RHETORIC IN BAROQUE SONG SETTINGS OF PETRARCH, TASSO, MARINO AND GUARINI
Lecture by Laura Pietropaolo (York University), John Edwards and Hallie Fishel (The Musicians in Ordinary).
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 – 6:30pm
Istituto Italiano di Cultura
Free admission
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The lecture will introduce the audience to the concert You who Hear in these Scattered Rhymes… that The Musicians In Ordinary will hold on March 2nd at the Heliconian Hall.
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“Vincenzo Galilei was as clever with music as his son turned out to be with a telescope. He said, ‘the most important and principal part of music is the imitation of the concepts of the words’ and that the best musicians would observe ‘the man infuriated or excited, the married woman, the clever harlot, the lover speaking to his mistress as he seeks to persuade her to grant his wishes, the man who laments…’ Sigismondo d’India, Claudio Monteverdi, Giulio Caccini and others took the words of the greatest poets of all ages and melded the poetic art the with arts of rhetoric and music as they invented the Baroque style. York University’s Laura Pietropaolo describes this synaesthetic marriage of poetry, rhetoric and music as performed by The Musicians In Ordinary as they prepare for their March 2nd concert of such repertoire at Heliconian Hall.”
