Neapolitan School

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In music history, the Neapolitan School is a group, associated with opera, of 17th and 18th-century composers who studied or worked in Naples, Italy, [1] the best known of whom is Alessandro Scarlatti, with whom "modern opera begins". [2] Francesco Provenzale is generally considered the school's founder. [3] Others significant composers of this school are Giambattista Pergolesi, Domenico Cimarosa and Giovanni Paisiello.

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It is with the Neapolitan school...that the History of Modern Music commences—insofar as that music speaks the language of the feelings, emotions, and passions.

Schluter [4]

The Neapolitan School has been considered in between the Roman School and the Venetian School in importance. [4]

However, "The concept of Neapolitan school, or more particularly Neapolitan opera, has been questioned by a number of scholars. That Naples was a significant musical center in the 18th century is beyond doubt. Whether the composers working in Naples at that time developed or partook of a distinct and characteristic musical style is less clear" since so little is known about the repertory. [1]

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Don Michael Randel (2003). The Harvard Dictionary of Music, p. 549. ISBN   978-0-674-01163-2.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Paul Henry Lang (1997). Music in Western Civilization, p. 453. ISBN   978-0-393-04074-6.
  3. Robinson, Michael F.; Monson, Dale E. (2002) [1992]. "Provenzale, Francesco (opera)" . Grove Music Online . Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O002372. ISBN   978-1-56159-263-0.(subscription or UK public library membership required)
  4. 1 2 Schluter, Joseph (1865). A General History of Music, p.47. R. Bentley.


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