Instrumental Music in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples

Anthony R. DelDonna, Ph.D. is Professor of Musicology and Director of the Music Program at Georgetown University, Washington DC. His research focuses on stage drama, instrumental music, archival studies, and ballet in early modern Italy and appears in The Journal of Musicology, Acta Musicologica, Quaderni d'Italianistica, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Early Music, Eighteenth-Century Music, Recercare, and Studi musicali. DelDonna is the author of the monograph Opera, Theatrical Culture and Society in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples (2012) and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Opera with Pierpaolo Polzonetti (2009).

• List of illustrations; List of music examples; List of tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Naples on the grand tour and within the historical imagination; 2. The Neapolitan conservatories: identity, formation, operation; 3. Pedagogical training in the conservatories; 4. Maria Carolina as cultural patron and icon; 5. Music for the court of Naples; 6. Genre, style, and transnational currents; 7. Maestri e operisti: Paisiello; 8. Maestri e operisti: Cimarosa and Guglielmi; 9. Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

'DelDonna's expertise in Neapolitan history and culture and his command of recent scholarship, both in English and Italian, place him in the most authoritative position to offer a new and compelling view on instrumental music in late eighteenth-century Naples … [the] work … resents a major addition to the current studies on musical, artistic, and pedagogical features of one of the most dynamic European capitals of the eighteenth century.' Guido Olivieri, Music and Letters