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Oberwerk(Ger.: ‘upper department’). The upper chest and manual of a German organ, often (since c1840) provided with Swell shutters, able by its position to take larger pipes than the Brustwerk and other minor chests of a Werkprinzip organ. In many sources (e.g. the autograph registrations in Bach's Concerto bwv596) Oberwerk denotes Hauptwerk, i.e. the main chest above the player, as opposed to the Rückpositiv (Chair organ). Praetorius (1619) used other phrases such as ‘Oben in der Brust’ or ‘oberste Positiff’ if he wished to refer to the Oberwerk. Schlick (1511) disparagingly mentioned small subsidiary chests placed within the main case, but the Oberwerk found on such organs as Kampen (1523) was a major department. That called boven int werck at Amsterdam Oude Kerk in 1543 had two chests and took all the colour stops away from the Hauptwerk, which was thereby kept to a size convenient for builder and bellows-blower. Such a department was very useful when it had its own keyboard and became highly developed, those in the big four-manual organs of Schnitger (c1690) still full of flutes, full-length reeds and other colours giving variety. The Unterwerke, Seitenwerke, Echowerke and Kronwerke (‘under, side, echo, crowning, departments’) found in later Baroque and Romantic organs are of much less musical significance. PETER WILLIAMS
and other resourcesE. Obey: Ebenezer Obey: the Legend’s Own Story (Ibadan, 1992) recordingsCurrent Affairs, Decca WAPS488 (1980) Je Ka Jo: Let us Dance, Virgin CD 205576–2 (1983) Juju Jubilee, Shanachie CD43031 (1985) Get yer Jujus out, Rykodisc RCD 20111 (1989) GREGORY F. BARZ Obiols, Mariano(b Barcelona, 26 Nov 1809; d Barcelona, 10 Dec 1888). Spanish composer. He began his studies in Spain but went abroad in 1831, becoming a protégé of Mercadante, with whom he toured Europe. His first opera, Odio e amore (two acts, libretto by F. Romani), had a successful run at La Scala beginning on 5 September 1837. In the same year Obiols returned to Barcelona to teach at the recently formed Conservatory, becoming its director in 1847, and during the next two decades dedicated himself mostly to teaching, administration and conducting. Not until 1874 did he produce another opera, Editta di Belcourt (four acts, libretto by F. Fors de Casamayor), first performed at the Gran Teatro del Liceo on 28 January. Though its italianate features were in harmony with the conservative repertory of the major Spanish theatres, Editta represented a compositional path abandoned by many of Obiols’s younger contemporaries, such as Bretón and Pedrell. Pedrell’s El último Abencerraje, in which Moorish and Spanish musical elements are prominent, was produced at the Liceo just a few months after the première of Editta. Obiols also wrote works for choir, orchestra and chamber ensemble, as well as a Método de solfeo and Ejercicios para canto. BIBLIOGRAPHYA. Mestres: Volves musicals, anecdotes y recorts (Barcelona, 1926) J. Subirá: ‘Operas de los maestros catalanes Obiols y Albéniz’, Variadas versiones de libretos operisticos (Madrid, 1973), 143–51 ROLAND J. VÁZQUEZ Obizzi, Domenico(b ?Venice, 1611–12; d after 1630). Italian composer and singer. He was employed as a singer at S Marco, Venice, from 16 April 1627 until 1630. He had important connections with influential Venetian patrons. When he was only 13 a motet by him for solo voice and continuo, ‘Jubilate Deo’, appeared in the collection Ghirlanda sacra (RISM, 16252, 2/16362), edited by Leonardo Simonetti, a musician at S Marco. In 1627 he published in Venice his Madrigali concertati a 2–5 voci con il basso continuo … libro primo and his Madrigali et arie a voce sola … libro primo op.2. The dedications state that he was then 15 years old, that from the age of nine he had been living under the protection of the Venetian patrician Lorenzo Loredano, and that Girolamo Mocenigo, another patrician and important patron of Monteverdi, was his sponsor at his confirmation. Many of the texts Obizzi set were the work of Pietro Michiel, a Venetian patrician and later co-founder of the illustrious Accademia degli Incogniti. Obizzi’s music is well crafted and shows mastery not only in the fusion of affective madrigalian techniques with lilting tunefulness within the same strophic aria, but also in the way short epigrammatic madrigal texts are dramatized through clever repetitions of text and music. (R. Miller: The Composers of San Marco and Santo Stefano and the Development of Venetian Monody (to 1630), diss., U. of Michigan, 1993) COLIN TIMMS/ROARK MILLER Directory: download -> 3062a7ba-8b89-4266-8568-82026f790e50 -> Bibliografia%20Básica download -> Northern England’s set-jetting locations download -> Bbc archives: Beyond the programme download download -> Occupational health and safety download -> Dynatest 3031 lwd light Weight Deflectometer download -> Forth coming competitive exams download -> English Olympiad Tasks: 10 th form Аудіювання, 10 клас. Текст download -> Brush High School Morning Announcements Friday, September 05, 2014 all school download -> Year 9 The Arts — Music download -> Years 7 and 8 standard elaborations — Australian Curriculum: Music draft Bibliografia%20Básica -> Faà di Bruno, Giovanni Matteo [Horatio, Orazio] Fabbri, Anna Maria Download 11.95 Mb. Share with your friends:
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