Upper School Music Director Published In Cambridge University Press

10/4/2017

Marti Lotman

Dr. Nicholas Lockey, upper school music director, has been published in the journal Eighteenth-Century Music by Cambridge University Press. His article, Antonio Vivaldi and The Sublime Seasons: Sonority and Texture as Expressive Devices in Early Eighteenth-Century Italian Music, is the culmination of two years of work. The article is currently the most-read article in the Journal’s website for the past month!

Lockey’s scholarship seeks to illustrate how Vivalvdi’s 'The Four Seasons' was a bold departure from previous musical representations of the seasons.

“For the first time, Vivaldi's sonnets accompanying each concerto are shown to be part of his broader effort to bring the music in line with emerging trends in literary, artistic, and philosophical thought,” said Lockey.

“I think this article provides a lot of stimulating ideas about the motivations that shaped the particular course Vivaldi took with these concertos and sonnets. In trying to address many of the basic questions that have remained unanswered since these works were first revived in the earlier twentieth century, clues emerged from a host other disciplines - visual and decorative art, literature, poetry, and philosophy. It is my hope that readers will come away with a greater appreciation for just how revolutionary and daring these very popular works once were and much can be gained paying closer attention to their details.”

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Upper School Music Director Published In Cambridge University Press

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