Paolo Britti, <em>il cieco di Venezia</em>: Street music in seventeenth-century Venice

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  • Kathryn Bosi Prato, Italia

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https://doi.org/10.3986/dmd14.2.03

Keywords:

street singers, Paolo Britti, Francesco Cavalli, Tarquinio Merula, Carlo Milanuzzi, Claudio Monteverdi

Abstract

The blind Venetian street singer Paolo Britti (fl. 1619–ca. 1660) composed poems of a popular nature, some two hundred of which survive. Britti occasionally indicates the ‘arias’ to which the poems should be sung: unexpectedly, they include monodies and arias by such composers as Milanuzzi, Monteverdi, Merula and Cavalli.

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Published

2018-11-28

How to Cite

Bosi, K. (2018). Paolo Britti, <em>il cieco di Venezia</em>: Street music in seventeenth-century Venice. De Musica Disserenda, 14(2), 43–54. https://doi.org/10.3986/dmd14.2.03

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Vol. 14 No. 2 (2018)

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