{"id":729,"date":"2016-05-13T23:27:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T03:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/?p=729"},"modified":"2016-08-24T14:13:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T18:13:46","slug":"suid233","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/?p=729","title":{"rendered":"Charles Burney, <i>The Present State of Music in France and Italy<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"aei-root\" lang=\"en-GB\"><!-- suid=233 --><\/p>\n<dl id=\"aei-dl-meta\">\n<dt>Performer Name:<\/dt>\n<dd> Corilla <\/dd>\n<dt>Performance Venue:<\/dt>\n<dd> Florence<\/dd>\n<dt>Performance Date:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\"> 1770<\/dd>\n<dt>Author:<\/dt>\n<dd> Burney, Charles<\/dd>\n<dt>Date Written:<\/dt>\n<dd>&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Language:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\"> English<\/dd>\n<dt>Publication Title:<\/dt>\n<dd> The Present State of Music in France and Italy: or, The Journal of a Tour through those Countries, Undertaken to Collect Materials for a General History of Music<\/dd>\n<dt>Article Title:<\/dt>\n<dd>&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Page Numbers:<\/dt>\n<dd> 259-260<\/dd>\n<dt>Additional Info:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\">&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Publisher:<\/dt>\n<dd> Beckett<\/dd>\n<dt>Place of Publication:<\/dt>\n<dd> London<\/dd>\n<dt>Date Published:<\/dt>\n<dd> 1773<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"aei-one-line-down\"><strong>Text:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"aei-blockquote\">\n<p> [259] <i> Tuesday <\/i> [September] 11.  At another great <i>accademia<\/i>, at the house of Signor Domenico Baldigiani, I this evening met with the famous <i>Improvvisatrice<\/i>, Signora Madalena Morelli, commonly called <i>La Corilla<\/i>, who is likewise a scholar of Signor Nardini, on the violin; and afterwards I was frequently at her house.*  Besides [260] her wonderful talent of speaking verses <i>extempore<\/i> upon any given subject, and being able to play a <i>ripieno<\/i> part, on the violin, in concert, she sings with a great deal of expression, and has a considerable share of execution.<\/p>\n<p>* She has, almost every evening, a <i>conversazione<\/i>, or assembly, which is much frequented by the foreigners, and men of letters, at Florence. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"aei-one-line-down\"><strong>Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"aei-blocktext\">\n&nbsp;\n    <\/div>\n<dl id=\"aei-dl-meta-unimportant\">\n<dt>Collected by:<\/dt>\n<dd> AE<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burney describes his meeting with Corilla and mentions her musical talent as well as her skill in poetic improvisation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,134],"tags":[67,63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1631,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/1631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}