SIMILARITIES ACROSS THE CENTURIES: A COMPARISON BETWEEN TWO VOCAL WORKS BY BARBARA STROZZI AND PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
SIMILARITIES ACROSS THE CENTURIES: A COMPARISON BETWEEN TWO VOCAL WORKS BY BARBARA STROZZI AND PETER MAXWELL DAVIES

Summary/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.

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