Giovanni Battista Abatessa

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Giovanni Battista Abatessa (also known as Badessa and Giovanni Battista Bitontino; other spellings Abbatessa and Abadessa as well as Giovanni Batista and the French form Jean Baptist Abbatezza; * before 1627 in Bitonto ; † after 1652) was an Italian composer and guitarist.

Life

Not much is known about Giovanni Battista Abatessa's life. His place of birth Bitonto in Apulia is given in the tablature books after his name. He is referred to there as Bitontino. He had contacts in the cultural centers of northern Italy, where he published his tablature books, such as B. Magni and Zanobi Pignoni in Florence, Giovanni Robletto in Orvieto and Lodovico Monza in Milan.

Works

Four books on tablature are known by Giovanni Battista Abatessa. They are collections of pieces that were written in the chitarra alla spagnola for the five-sided or five-course baroque guitar , which was customary at the time . They are accompaniments to popular songs and dances from the early seventeenth century, such as Passacaglia ,  Ciaccona , Folia , Ruggiero and Aria di Fiorenza (composed by Emilio de 'Cavalieri as part of the Florentine Intermedia of 1589 ) and others. a. The volume Cespuglio di varii fiori also includes five Villanelles for one, two or three voices with guitar and basso continuo. Each of the books includes instructions on how to play the tablature and tuning the guitar. The number of editions that were mostly identical in content and that followed in a short period of time indicate a certain popularity in its time.

  • Corona di vaghi fiori overo nuova intavolatura di chitarra alla spagnola ... di nova agiunta accresciuta, B. Magni, Florence, 1627 Contains information on guitar technique, how to play trillo (see trills ) and repicco and as well as tuning
  • Cespuglio di varii fiori overo intavolatura de chitarra spagnola, Giovanni Robletti. Orvieto, 1635  Zanobi Pignoni, Florence, 1637
  • Intessitura di varii fiori overo intavolatura di chitatra (sic) alla spagnola, Naples, 1645 and Pieri e Paci, Rome and Lucca, 1652
  • Ghirlanda di varii fiori overo intavolatura di chitarra spagnuola,  Lodovico Monza , Milan, 1650

literature

  • Abbatezza, Jean Baptiste : In: François-Joseph Fétis :  Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique. Volume 1, 1835
  • Leonardo Lospalutti: Consideratione su Giovan Battista Abatessa e su manuscritto per chitarra del Seicento a Bitonto. Il fronimo 67, 1989. Pp. 27–33 (Italian)
  • Hélène Charnassé: Abatessa In: Friedrich Blume, Ludwig Finscher. The music in the past and present. Bärenreiter 1994, p. 10
  • Robert Strizich and Gary R. Boye:  Abatessa, Giovanni Battista. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b James Tyler, Paul Sparks: The Guitar and Its Music: From the Renaissance to the Classical Era . Oxford University Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-19-816713-6 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed July 8, 2017]).
  2. ↑ a b Robert Strizich, Gary R. Boye: Abatessa, Giovanni Battista. In: Grove Music Online. Retrieved June 30, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Carl Ferdinand Becker: Systematic-chronological presentation of musical literature from the earliest to the most recent: 1 . Friese, 1836 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed July 8, 2017]).
  4. ↑ a b c Hélène Charnassé: Abatessa . In: Friedrich Blume, Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . 2nd Edition. Person part band 1 . Bärenreiter, 1994, ISBN 978-3-7618-1111-5 , pp. 10 .
  5. ^ Iain Fenlon: Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music . Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-521-10434-0 ( google.de [accessed July 1, 2017]).
  6. ↑ James Tyler: A Guide to Playing the Baroque Guitar. Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis 2011, ISBN 978-0-253-22289-3 , p. 101.
  7. ↑ Abatessa, Giovanni. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on June 30, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / barrocos.vtrbandaancha.net  
  8. ↑ ICCU: Scheda dettagliata. Retrieved June 30, 2017 (Italian).
  9. ↑ a b Abatessa 1627 - Contents. Retrieved June 30, 2017 .
  10. ↑ ICCU: Scheda dettagliata. Retrieved June 30, 2017 (Italian).
  11. ↑ a b Abatessa 1635 - Contents. Retrieved June 30, 2017 .
  12. ↑ ICCU: Scheda dettagliata. Retrieved June 30, 2017 (Italian).
  13. ↑ ICCU: Scheda dettagliata. Retrieved June 30, 2017 (Italian).
  14. ↑ ICCU: Scheda dettagliata. Retrieved June 30, 2017 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Abatessa, Giovanni Battista
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abadessa; Abbatessa; Abatezza; Badessa; Jean Baptiste Abbatezza
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer and guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH before 1627
PLACE OF BIRTH Bitonto , Apulia
DATE OF DEATH after 1652