Download or read book The Neapolitan Canzone in the Early Nineteenth Century as Cultivated in the Passatempti Musicali of Guillaume Cottrau written by Pasquale Scialò and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines the history of the Canzona Napoletana and its emergence as a leading genre of popular music in the early nineteenth century. Featuring original research by leading scholars in the fields of ethnomusicology, historical musicology, and theater, this is the first collection of essays in the English language to address the topic.