TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
9th Biennial Conference on Baroque Music
ABSTRACT
Production of the early-Baroque sacred monody in the Venetian towns on
the North-Eastern side of the Adriatic sea
Metoda Kokole
The geographical position of Koper and Piran, the major towns on the north-eastern
coast of the Adriatic sea, in-between the cultural impulses coming from
the centre of the Venetian Republic across the sea and the neighbouring
Habsburg provinces in the mainland, fostered in the 17th century a highly
developed cultural life. One of the outstanding personalities in the musical
life of these towns in the second and third decades of that century was
Gabriello Puliti (c. 1575–1641/44), a Franciscan monk and a prolific composer
of 36 sacred and secular works including a variety of musical forms then
in use. Puliti is documented from ca. 1609 to at least 1624 in Piran and
Koper. His four collections of solo motets for soprano or tenor and basso
continuo (three of them survived: Pungenti dardi spirituali, Lilia
convallium and Sacri accenti), published in Venice between 1618
and 1620, show Puliti as a worthy early-Baroque master of sacred monody,
one of the numerous Kleinmeister of small concertato motets, the
form that was spreading at the time from Northern Italy to the Habsburg
provinces. With his connections in Carniola and Styria, Gabriello Puliti
might be considered also as one of the possible links in the transfer of
the genre to the German-speaking lands in the early 17th century.
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