Arthur wrote:
Separately I sent a reference for the "authentic edition" of the
Italian anthology (ed. Paton). The one you were looking for.
Yes, a good edition actually. It has the songs from Arie Antiche with good
translations, pronounciation guide, facsimile if available and a more 'hip'
piano accompaniment. I thought Den haag public library has it too, but
perhaps not the volume with Nina.
Please do let us know what you discover at the NMI. The opera in
which "Tre giorni son che Nina" appears is "Tre Cicisbei
Ridicoli" (Bologna 1746,
Venice 1747, London 1749*) composed by Natale RESTA, Maestro di
Cappella
Milanese. You mention a period libretto with Dutch translation.
The opera (dramma giocoso) was also performed in Amsterdam in
1750
with the London cast.
I was wrong, I assumed another opera to contain our Nina. Here's something
interesting from the Grove. Anybody has acces to these articles?:
W.B. Squire: 'Tre giorni son che Nina', MT, xl (1899), 241-3
F. Walker: '"Tre giorni son che Nina", an old Controversy Re-Opened', MT, xc
(1949), 432-5
And David tayler wrote:
Anyway, what would be cool is to simply have all
the facsimiles for all of those pieces available on the internet, 'cause
they
aren't going away :)
..
And whose idea was it to make piano versions?
Hire the lutes!
<<
I'm often hired to play these songs, so they've made me a lot of money over
the years. ;-) Great songs, anyway. Usually I can get away with faking
something old on a lute or 19th century guitar, although many of the singers
are so used to the late 19th century piano accompaniments that they want me
to play these verbatim. But this singer is more interested in the original
and, of course, so am I. Also, I'm much more happy with an original continuo
bass, because then it's so much more clear where my freedom is and what the
editor has added (additor...?). Someone on the list promised to send me a
19th century guitar version, perhaps that is what Roman was referring to?
David
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