<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Musical creativity may be expressed by composers in diverse ways: sometimes they compose fully original works, which are characterized by specific features making them unique. Other times, musicians may feel a particular affinity with colleagues who lived centuries before, or identify peculiar resemblances between the time they live in, and a previous epoch, such as similar cultural climate and approach to life: in these cases, composers may author pieces which show surprising similarities with those of some predecessors. The present study compares a work of the seventeenth century, composed by Barbara Strozzi, and one composed in the 1960s by Peter Maxwell Davies, highlighting their similarities.</p></abstract>

Musical creativity may be expressed by composers in diverse ways: sometimes they compose fully original works, which are characterized by specific features making them unique. Other times, musicians may feel a particular affinity with colleagues who lived centuries before, or identify peculiar resemblances between the time they live in, and a previous epoch, such as similar cultural climate and approach to life: in these cases, composers may author pieces which show surprising similarities with those of some predecessors. The present study compares a work of the seventeenth century, composed by Barbara Strozzi, and one composed in the 1960s by Peter Maxwell Davies, highlighting their similarities.

3. Similarities Across the Centuries: A Comparison Between Two Vocal Works by Barbara Strozzi and Peter Maxwell Davies

Review of Artistic Education

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Musical creativity may be expressed by composers in diverse ways: sometimes they compose fully original works, which are characterized by specific features...

3. Similarities Across the Centuries: A Comparison Between Two Vocal Works by Barbara Strozzi and Peter Maxwell Davies

Article Category: Number 15 / Part I. Music

Published Online: Mar 28, 2018

Page range: 29 - 36

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rae-2018-0003

Keywords
Baroque, Expressionism, mad scene, melismatic passages, chromatism

© 2018

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

3. Similarities Across the Centuries: A Comparison Between Two Vocal Works by Barbara Strozzi and Peter Maxwell Davies

Article Category: Number 15 / Part I. Music

Published Online: Mar 28, 2018

Page range: 29 - 36

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rae-2018-0003

KeywordsBaroque, Expressionism, mad scene, melismatic passages, chromatism

© 2018

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Baroque, Expressionism, mad scene, melismatic passages, chromatism