TY - BOOK ID - 77896211 TI - The Italian cantata in Vienna : entertainment in the age of absolutism PY - 2013 SN - 0253010349 9780253010346 1299924328 9781299924321 9780253010186 0253010187 PB - Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Cantatas KW - Cantatas (Mixed voices) KW - Choruses KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77896211 AB - Lawrence Bennett provides a comprehensive study of the rich repertoire of accompanied vocal chamber music that entertained the imperial family in Vienna and their guests throughout the 17th and early 18th centuries. The cantata became a form of elite entertainment composed to amuse listeners during banquets or pay homage to members of the royal family during special occasions. Concentrating on Baroque cantatas composed in the Habsburg court, Bennett draws extensively on primary source material to explore the stylistic changes that occurred within the genre in the generations before Haydn an ER -