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Poetic idea star vitfinoal bd:lidol ke s~ma

"I love being near you, I hate being Star vicino al bell'idol che s'ama
away from you." To-be near to-the beautiful-idol that one-loves

Background eil pju vMo dilft:to damQr

E il pin vago diletto d'amor.
It used to be believed that this song is the most attractive joy of-love.
was composed by a famous Roman
painter, Salvator Rosa (1615-1673). star lont~no dal ben ke si br~ma
In fact, Rosa owned a hand-written Star lontano dal ben che si brama,
book of songs; he had written the To-be far from-the beloved whom one desires
words to three of them. Long after
Rosa's death, the book was sold to a e damQfeil pju vivo dolQr
British traveler, Dr. Charles Burney, E d'amore il pin vivo dolor.
who believed that Rosa had com- is of-love the most vital sorrow.
posed all of the poetry and all of the
music in the book.
In A General History of Music ,
Burney described Rosa's book and
printed musical excerpts from it.
When Burney 's history became eight years after Rosa's death. Dr.
famous , the excerpts were arranged Walker reported that "Star vicino" is a
and published as solo songs, spread- da capo aria with a middle section
ing the myth that Rosa had been a that begins "Altre gioie" ("Other
composer. Although musical scholars joys"). Unfortunately, the missing sec-
suspected that this was not true, the tion has never been published.
idea of a painter-composer appealed The Rosa book was sold to a
to many musicians of the Romantic French musicologist, Genevieve
era. Franz Liszt even wrote a piano Thibault. Since her death, the book
piece, "Canzonetta di Salvator Rosa," has been unavailable to scholars and
based on one of the songs, "Vado ben remains so as this is written.
spesso. "
In 1949 Frank Walker, an English Source
musicologist, examined Rosa's book Charles Burney, A General History of
and determined that Rosa actually Music, Vol. 4 (London: 1789). For
composed none of the music attribut- voice and continuo. Original key: F
ed to him. The first twelve pieces in major. This edition presents Burney's
the book, all in one person 's hand- excerpt, m1-m16, followed by a sec-
writing , are known from other ond stanza based on versions from the
sources to be works of well-known 1800s. The text of the second stanza is
composers. The other pieces were by Count Pepoli of Bologna, and an
copied by other persons onto blank anonymous editor added the final
pages in the book after Rosa's death. eight measures.
No . 15 is an aria that Alessandro
Scarlatti composed in 1681. "Vado Bibliography
ben spesso, " now known to be a com- Frank Walker, "Salvator Rosa and
position of Giovanni Bononcini, is Music," Monthly Musical Record,
no. 19. October 1949. Mr. Albi Rosenthal,
"Star vicino" is no. 21; it was cer- London, confirmed the later owner-
tainly copied into the book at least ship of the Rosa book.

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