Music in Naples (1771) [ People ]
… the famous Neapolitan air, which the common people constantly play at Christmas to the Virgin; this he plays with a drone kind of bag-pipe base, in a very humorous, though delicate manner. But as a solo- player, though his tone is very … one of the best harpsichord players and writers for that instrument at Naples." … Music … Italy … Curiosity … Charles Burney, 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 . By Charles Burney, Mus. D. London: printed for T. Becket and Co. in the Strand, 1771, p. 321-324. Transcription by Alain Kerhervé. …
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