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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
"Rinfreschi e composizioni Poetiche": The "feste di ballo" Tradition in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples
Contributor:
DelDonna, Anthony R.
imprint:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011
Published in:Eighteenth-Century Studies
Language:
English
ISSN:
0013-2586;
1086-315X
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<p>This essay studies the emergence of the feste di bailo tradition in late-eighteenth-century Naples. It is based upon the examination of extant music, production records, giornali and Gennaro Magri's treatise, Trattato teorico-prattico di bailo (1779). These diverse sources reveal that the feste di bailo were compelling representations of thriving dance practices, which complemented and rivaled the renowned operatic traditions of the city, whether as theatrical or social modes of spectacle. The tradition of Neapolitan feste di bailo offers, moreover, compelling points of comparison to the contemporary Venetian operatic ball and festino and the Parisian bals publics.</p>