FRANCESCO PROVENZALE: Squarciato appena havea PDF SCORE

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Composed by Francesco Provenzale (1624-1704). From Biblioteca del Conservatorio di Musica San Pietro a Majella - 33.4.12, pp.25-56.
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Squarciato appena havea is a typical cantata-lament in Roman style, but with a particularity: the presence of seven popular songs breaking in at various points in the sequence of sections in recitative style. (…) the subject of the cantata is the famous episode of the death of Gustavus Adolphus, the husband of Queen Maria Eleonora of Sweden, in Lützen in 1632, an episode also recalled in the cantata-lament by Luigi Rossi, Un ferito cavaliero. The bizarre Squarciato appena havea can be considered a satire or a parody of Rossi's famous cantata, re-proposing, but hyperbolically, the queen's lament (she seems to die in each strophe only to recover).- Music in Seventeenth-century Naples: Francesco Provenzale (1624-1704), by Dinko Fabris (2007)