Description

Clori. Archivio della cantata italiana is a project promoted by the Italian Society of Musicology in collaboration with the Centro studi sulla Cantata Italiana (of the University of Rome "Tor Vergata") and with the Istituto Italiano per la Storia della Musica. The project focuses on the Italian cantata, a genre of vocal chamber music on an Italian text that flourished from about 1620 until the early decades of the nineteenth century. The main goals of the project are, on the one hand, the study of the sources and the establishment of a database of the Italian cantata, and on the other hand an inquiry on hitherto little known aspects of this genre: poetic texts, metric and musical structures, style, performing practices, text-music relationship; the social context including patronage, circulation of texts and composers, occasions, and iconography; the terminological issues and the relationships with treatises, harmonic structures and the realization of thoroughbass.