Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Ιστορική και Συστηματική ΜουσικολογίαLibrary of the School of Philosophy
Author:
Dionatos Alexandros
Supervisors info:
Νικόλαος Μαλιάρας, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Μουσικών Σπουδών, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ
Irmgard Lerch-Καλαβρυτινού, Αναπλ. Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Μουσικών Σπουδών, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ
Ιωάννης Παπαθανασίου, Αναπλ. Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Μουσικών Σπουδών, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Οι φορείς της μουσικής εκπαίδευσης στο ιταλικό μπαρόκ. Οι παραδοσιακές πρακτικές και οι νέοι θεσμοί: τα βενετικά ospedali και τα ναπολιτάνικα conservatorii.
Translated title:
The institutions of music education in the Italian Baroque. Traditional practices and innovative foundations: Venetian Ospedali and Neapolitan Conservatorii.
Summary:
Italy, the birthplace of the artistic and musical Baroque movement, served as incubator for the most significant music genres and forms, compositional techniques, as well as vocal, instrumental and orchestral idioms of the Baroque style, which would eventually spread out throughout Western Europe. Serving not only as an exporter of the Baroque music, style and idea, Italy also produced a great number of composers and performers who would thrive in the European courts. This orgasmic growth of the musical scene in Italy during the Baroque period, is attributed to various interrelated features of the time, such as the evolution of musical education, which adopts additional, innovative elements, albeit maintaining numerous characteristics of the past.
This essay attempts to outline the former and neoteric aspects of musical education in the Italian Baroque era, whilst emphasizing on the unprecedented institutions of the Venetian Ospedali and the Neapolitan Conservatorii. At first the author traces the various parameters of the socio – economical and political background as well as the intellectual notions of this particlular period, which have affected the development of musical training at the time. Towards the main part of the essay, the reader is presented to the various establishments of musical education in the Italian Baroque period; on one hand the traditional institutional forms and practices, either official or informal and on the other hand the emerging and unprecedented success and international acclaim of new educational foundations which evolved in the grounds of humble welfare institutions (orphanages, asylums and houses of the poor) in Venice and Naples. The author aims to illuminate the phenomena of the Venetian Ospedali and the Neapolitan Conservatorii, by presenting the various aspects of the framework of their development during the 17th and 18th century.
Main subject category:
Fine arts - Entertainment
Keywords:
music education, Italian baroque, ospedali, conservatorii
