Instrumental Music in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples

The music of early modern Naples and its renowned artistic traditions remain
a fruitful area for scholars in eighteenth-century studies. Contemporary social,
political, and artistic conditions had stimulated a significant growth of music,
musicians, and culture in the Kingdom of Naples from the beginning of the
seventeenth century. Although eighteenth-century Neapolitan opera is well
documented in scholarship, historians have paid much less attention to the
simultaneous cultivation of instrumental genres. Yet the culture of instrumen-
tal music grew steadily and by its end, became an exclusive area of focus for the
royal court, a remarkable departure from past norms of patronage. By bridging
this gap, Anthony R. DelDonna brings together diverse fields, including
historical musicology, music theory, Neapolitan and European history. His
book investigates the wide-ranging role of instrumental genres within late
eighteenth-century Neapolitan culture and introduces readers to new material,
including recently discovered instrumental works of Paisiello, Cimarosa and
Pleyel.

 . , Ph.D. is Professor of Musicology and Director

of the Music Program at Georgetown University, Washington DC. His
research focuses on stage drama, instrumental music, archival studies, and
ballet in early modern Italy and appears in The Journal of Musicology, Acta
Musicologica, Quaderni d’Italianistica, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Early
Music, Eighteenth-Century Music, Recercare, and Studi musicali. DelDonna is
the author of the monograph Opera, Theatrical Culture and Society in Late
Eighteenth-Century Naples (2012) and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion
to Eighteenth-Century Opera with Pierpaolo Polzonetti (2009).

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Eighteenth-Century Naples
Politics, Patronage and Artistic Culture

 . 
Georgetown University, Washington, DC

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Names: DelDonna, Anthony, author.
Title: Instrumental music in late eighteenth-century Naples : politics, patronage and artistic culture /
Anthony R. DelDonna.
Description: [1.] | New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020025559 (print) | LCCN 2020025560 (ebook) | ISBN 9781108477611 (hardback) |
ISBN 9781108725781 (paperback) | ISBN 9781108770064 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Instrumental music–Italy–Naples–18th century–History and criticism. | Music–Social aspects–Italy–
Naples–History–18th century. | Conservatories of music–Italy–Naples–History–18th century.
Classification: LCC ML503.8.N36 D45 2021 (print) | LCC ML503.8.N36 (ebook) | DDC 784.0945/73109033–dc23
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