Mozart, Pergolesi, Handel?: A Study of Three Forgeries

dc.contributor.advisorKing, Richard Gen_US
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Erinen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMusicen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-24T06:16:06Z
dc.date.available2014-06-24T06:16:06Z
dc.date.issued2014en_US
dc.description.abstractForgeries of musical manuscripts are little discussed in the musicological literature, but their serious study can be valuable. This thesis outlines a method for the comprehensive study of music forgeries and shows how that method might be used by examining three autograph forgeries in depth. These forgeries are of Pergolesi's "Non mi negar signora" and Mozart's "Baci amorosi e cari," both at The Library of Congress, and Handel's "Rejoice greatly" from <italic>Messiah</italic>, in the University of Maryland's Special Collections in the Performing Arts. Tobia Nicotra, a prolific forger from the 1920s and 1930s created the two Library of Congress manuscripts and elements of his forging style are identified. Finally, though J. M. Coopersmith claimed the "Rejoice greatly" forgery was Nicotra's, this study shows that it is not Nicotra's due to differences in the forging methods used.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/15385
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMusicen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledauthenticationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledBaci amorosi e carien_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledforgeryen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledNon mi negar signoraen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledRejoice greatlyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledTobia Nicotraen_US
dc.titleMozart, Pergolesi, Handel?: A Study of Three Forgeriesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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