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In Search of the Real Pandolfi: A Musical Journey Between Innsbruck and Messina

McCormick, David Ryan

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2011, Master of Arts, Case Western Reserve University, Early Music Performance.
Despite the close similarity in composers’ names, it has never been clear if the twelve sonatas of op.3 and op.4 by Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli (1660) and a set of eighteen sonatas by Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi (1669) were composed by the same individual, especially since the two sets are written in such sharply contrasting musical styles. Using a range of archival and musical evidence, this study suggests, however, that one composer was indeed responsible, and that the difference in musical style can be explained by putting it in the context of the wider development of the sonata in Italy, and by understanding the musical culture of Innsbruck and Messina, the cities in which the two collections appear to have been composed. Focusing particularly on the 1669 Messina set, the study includes modern editions of nine of these sonatas.
Dr. Peter Bennett, PhD (Advisor)
67 p.

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  • McCormick, D. R. (2011). In Search of the Real Pandolfi: A Musical Journey Between Innsbruck and Messina [Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1310142681

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • McCormick, David. In Search of the Real Pandolfi: A Musical Journey Between Innsbruck and Messina. 2011. Case Western Reserve University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1310142681.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • McCormick, David. "In Search of the Real Pandolfi: A Musical Journey Between Innsbruck and Messina." Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1310142681

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)