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The Solfeggio Tradition: A Forgotten Art of Melody in the Long Eighteenth Century (2020)
Book
Baragwanath, N. (2020). The Solfeggio Tradition: A Forgotten Art of Melody in the Long Eighteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197514085.001.0001

How did castrati manage to amaze their eighteenth-century audiences by singing the same aria several times in completely different ways? And how could composers of the time write operas in a matter of days? The secret lies in the solfeggio tradition,... Read More about The Solfeggio Tradition: A Forgotten Art of Melody in the Long Eighteenth Century.

Giovanni Battista De Vecchis and the theory of melodic accent from Zarlino to Zingarelli (2014)
Journal Article
Baragwanath, N. (2014). Giovanni Battista De Vecchis and the theory of melodic accent from Zarlino to Zingarelli. Music and Letters, 95(2), 157-182. https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcu010

This article investigates Niccolò Zingarelli's method of text-setting, as documented in Giovanni Battista De Vecchis's Compendio of Neapolitan teachings (1850). It contextualizes De Vecchis's instructions by tracing the genealogy of the concept of 'a... Read More about Giovanni Battista De Vecchis and the theory of melodic accent from Zarlino to Zingarelli.