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by Calogero Sportato the first part of this article relating to the long lute can be found here the second part relating to the colascione can be found here the third part of the article relating to the short lute and the Arabian lute can be found here. Our evolutionary path continues with the addition of low strings tuned at a distance of […]
of Calogero sportato the first part of the article relating to the lute along you can find it here the second part where we talk about the colascione you can find it here we continue our exposure describing the short lute: the Persians still hand down to us the first iconographies of L. short and therefore of an instrument with the more handle […]
by Calogero Sportato you can find the first part of the article here Il colascione, with small convex case and long handle 100 a 200 cm, he was very popular in southern Italy and was not lacking in cheerful outings as Giovanni Battista Valentino testifies to us in a short poem "Naples collided after the plague", given birth to Paci […]
Calogero Sportato. The lute and its organological evolution. Composite chordophone with shell neck handle. It has a rounded pyriform case, short handle, 7 or more keys, anklet turned backwards at a right angle. The term Lute derives from the Arabic “Ud” (Wood) organologically it is a word that designates a specific instrument, but also adopted to understand generically […]
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ROCOCÒ AND CLASSICISM The triumphal rise of the natural sciences in the 18th century produced a complete change in man's general perspective and in his conception of the Universe. The past acceptance, free from criticism, of the doctrines handed down by the writers of Antiquity had been replaced by the empirical observation which in previous centuries had already led to Galileo's revolutionary discoveries, Newton […]
The treatise of Geminiani of 1749, dedicated to His Highness Prince of Wales, describes the idea of good taste with these words (Geminiani Francesco Saverio 1749 Treatise on good taste in musical art which represents the second part of the Rules, London. Italian translation by Luca Ripanti, Rusty editors, Milano 1995 pag 5): What is commonly meant by […]
“The object of music is sound. Music is intended to entertain and arouse different feelings in us” Descartes Appreciating and defining music or a sound as beautiful means recognizing that it is an aspect intimately linked to temporality. When someone says that music is beautiful, it's because he appreciates the melody […]
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