Editing Benedetto Marcello (section)

==Music==
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Marcello composed a variety of music including considerable church music, [[oratorio]]s, hundreds of solo [[cantata]]s, [[duet]]s, [[sonata]]s, [[concerto]]s and [[sinfonia]]s. Marcello was a younger contemporary of [[Antonio Vivaldi]] in Venice and his instrumental music enjoys a Vivaldian flavour.

As a composer, Marcello was best known in his lifetime and is now still best remembered for his ''Estro poetico-armonico'' ([[Venice]], 1724–27), a musical setting for voices, [[figured bass]] (a continuo notation), and occasional solo instruments, of the first fifty Psalms, as paraphrased in Italian by his friend G. Giustiniani. They were much admired by [[Charles Avison]], who with [[John Garth (composer)|John Garth]] brought out an edition with English words (London, 1757). ''Estro poetico-armonico'' also represents an important contribution to the history of Jewish liturgical music. Eleven of the Psalms are set to melodies that Marcello apparently transcribed while attending services at several Venetian synagogues. The eleven melodies – six from the [[Nusach Ashkenaz|Ashkenazic]] tradition, and five from the [[Sephardic music|Sephardic]] tradition – are among the earliest notated sources of Jewish liturgy, preceded only by [[Salamone Rossi]]'s ''Hashirim Asher L’Shlomo''.<ref>[https://hebrewmarcello.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/the-man/ Hebrew Marcello - Sacred Jewish art music: Estro poetico-armonico in Hebrew]</ref><ref>[http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10394-marcello-benedetto ''Marcello, Benedetto'' in the Jewish Encyclopedia]</ref> Perhaps the best known of these melodies is an Ashkenazic melody for [[Ma'oz Tzur]].<ref>[https://hebrewmarcello.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/maoz-tsur-marcello.pdf Marcello's score for Ma'oz Tzur]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Marcello+maoz+tzur Marcello's Ma'oz Tzur performed by the Zamir Chorale]</ref>

The library of the Brussels Conservatoire possesses some interesting volumes of chamber cantatas composed by Marcello for his mistress. Although Benedetto Marcello wrote an opera called ''La Fede riconosciuta'' and produced it in [[Vicenza]] in 1702, he had little sympathy with this form of composition, as evidenced in his writings (see below).

Benedetto Marcello's music is "characterized by imagination and a fine technique and includes both counterpoint and progressive, galant features".{{harv|Grove|1994}}.

With the poet [[Antonio Schinella Conti]] he wrote a series of experimental long cantatas – a duet, ''Il Timoteo'', then five monologues, ''Cantone,'' ''Lucrezia,'' ''Andromaca,'' ''Arianna abandonnata,'' and finally ''Cassandra''.