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Filial Enchaînements Metastasio, ‘Per quel paterno amplesso’ (Arbace), Artaserse, Act II
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 September 2016
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- Cambridge Opera Journal , Volume 28 , Special Issue 2: Special Issue: Remaking the Aria , July 2016 , pp. 119 - 125
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- © Cambridge University Press 2016
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Suzanne Aspden, University of Oxford; suzanne.aspden@music.ox.ac.uk.
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2 Heartz, Daniel, Music in European Capitals: The Galant Style, 1720–1780 (New York, 2003), 95–98 Google Scholar.
3 On Farinelli’s apparent role preference, see Desler, Anne, ‘From “Oh virtù che innamora!” to “Son pastorello amante”: Farinelli and Metastasio’s Artaserse ’, in Music Observed: Studies in Memory of William C. Holmes, ed. Colleen Reardon and Susan Parisi (Warren, MI, 2004), 117–139 Google Scholar.
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5 While Vinci also uses a falling lombardic motive on ‘questo’, the ubiquity of the lombard rhythm does not give this motive the character it has in Hasse’s aria.
6 On the possibility that Farinelli’s legendarily poor acting may have been deliberate, see Desler, Anne, ‘“The Little That I Have Done is Already Gone and Forgotten”: Farinelli and Burney Write Music History’, Cambridge Opera Journal 27 (2015), 215–238 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
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