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Stabat Mater Dolorosa – A text in progress
1. Why has the Stabat Mater, the poetic composition attributed to Jacopone da Todi, been set to music so many times?
History of the text, Use, Liturgy
Reading the text of the Stabat Mater. (Translation)
Exegesis. Expressive and universal values of the Mother’s pain
Rhetorical and metric efficacy
Metric exercise
2. Listening to the sequence – Different setting from the Middle Ages to today
Stabat Mater in theater, cinema and literature.
Relevance of the text. Listening.
3. Stabat Mater by Giambattista Pergolesi (1710-1736)
Historical, religious and musical context. Stylemes.
Previous
Francesco Provenzale – Pange Lingua
Alessandro Scarlatti – Stabat Mater
4. Immediate international diffusion of Pergolesi’s Stabat
Cultured debates in Paris in 1750’s and popular use
5. Pergolesi as a model: Traetta Stabat Mater
The transcriptions of Pergolesi’s Stabat: Bach, Tilge , Salieri
6. Paisiello 1810 – The motivations
“Without departing from the original”
Context and Documents
7. Pergolesi 1736 – Paisiello 1810 – A comparative analysis with the original
Listening – Viewing Slides
8. Philology – Original instruments – General considerations on “historically informed” performances
Practical use of original editions (Urtext) – Description of the philological and editorial criteria adopted in the revision of Paisiello’s score

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