Paolo Britti, <em>il cieco di Venezia</em>: Street music in seventeenth-century Venice

The blind Venetian street singer Paolo Britti (fl. 1619–ca. 1660) composed poems of a popular nature, some two hundred of which survive. Britti occasionally indicates the ‘arias’ to which the poems should be sung: unexpectedly, they include monodies and arias by such composers as Milanuzzi, Montever...

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Main Author: Kathryn Bosi
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC 2018-11-01
Series:De Musica Disserenda
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Online Access:https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/dmd/article/view/7160