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Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era

A Neapolitan Festa a Ballo and Selected instrumental Ensemble Pieces
Edited by Roland Jackson

B 27	ISBN 0-89579-093-9	(1978) xx+169 pp.	$31.00
	ISBN 978-0-89579-093-4 (13-digit)

This edition presents a rare example of an early seventeenth-century Neapolitan dance spectacle for which both a libretto and a large part of the music are preserved. The work is a pasticcio by five collaborating composers: Lambardo, Trabaci, Spiardo, Ansalone, and Giramo. The instrumental ensemble pieces are representative of Neapolitan court music; these dances, or similar ones, may have been performed as supplements to the festa a ballo of this edition at its original presentation in 1620.

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The Neapolitan festa à ballo "Delizie di Posilipo Boscarecce, a maritime" presents a pasticcio of works by Francesco Lambardi, Giovanni Maria Trabaci, Giacomo Spiardo, Andrea Ansalone, and Pietro Antonio Giramo. The selected instrumental ensemble pieces from Naples Conservatory MS 4.6.3. are:

Sinfonia antica; Gagliarda Prima; Gagliarda Seconda (Giovanni da Macque); Gagliarda Terza; Gagliarda Quarta; Gagliarda Quinta; Gagliarda Sesta (Giovanni Maria Trabaci); Gagliarda Settima; Gagliarda Ottava; Gagliarda Nona (Giovanni Maria Trabaci); Gagliarda, Principe di Venosa (Don Carlo Gesualdo); Gagliarda Falsa (Don Giovanni Maria Sabini); Spagnoletta (Hettorre della Marra); Gagliarda; Gagliarda (Arpa)