Neapolitan Canzone in the Early Nineteenth Century as Cultivated in the Passatempi musicali of Guillaume Cottrau

Pasquale Scialò teaches at the Conservatory of Salerno and the University of Naples. Francesca Seller is professor of musicology at the Conservatory of Salerno and scholar at the l’Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici in Naples.Anthony R. DelDonna is associate professor of musicology at Georgetown University.

“An impressive volume of essays, realized on primary music sources and personal correspondence, that documents the contributions of French-Neapolitan entrepreneur, composer, and editor Guillaume Cottrau to the history of Neapolitan songs with his collection of canzoni, Passatempi musicali, published in the first half of the nineteenth century. An important addition to the annals of Neapolitan song.”

• List of figures and tablesAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPasquale Scialò, Francesca Seller, and Anthony R. DelDonna1. Haunts of an armchair traveler: the variegated world of the letters of Guillaume CottrauMassimo Distilo2. Origins, authorship, and new hypotheses about the Passatempi musicaliPasquale Scialò3. The role of Neapolitan song in comedic dramaturgy of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuriesPaologiovanni Maione4. After the Golden Age: considerations on the nature of nineteenth-century Neapolitan theaterFrancesco Cotticelli5. Guillaume Cottrau, a French-Neapolitan entrepreneurFrancesca Seller6. Musical traditions and matrices in the Passatempi musicali of Guillaume CottrauRaffaele Di Mauro7. Musical instruments in the early nineteenth-century Neapolitan salonFrancesco Nocerino8. Considerations on the Neapolitan language today and at the time of the Passatempi musicali by Guillaume CottreauGiovanni VitaleBibliographyAbout the contributors