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- English
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Monteverdi and his Contemporaries
About this book
This collection of reprinted essays takes the trends of the author's Music, Patronage and Printing in Late Renaissance Florence (also in the 'Variorum' series) in a somewhat different direction. If the focus there was primarily on archival documents, here it is on the actual music. The starting-point is similar - the rise of the 'new music' for solo voice and basso continuo in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Florence, in particular the songs of Giulio Caccini. But it moves on to broader aesthetic issues crystallized in contemporary theoretical debate and musical practice - not least the rise of aria-based styles - and concludes with a series of studies of Claudio Monteverdi's works for the theatre, including the operas Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (1640) and the ever-problematic L'incoronazione di Poppea (1643).
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- I Music Publishing in Italy, c. 1580–c. 1625: Some Preliminary Observations
- II On the Composition and Performance of Caccini's Le nuove musiche (1602)
- III Caccini's Amarilli, mia bella: Some Questions (and a Few Answers)
- IV New Songs for Old? Guarini and the Monody
- V 'An Air New and Grateful to the Ear': The Concept of Aria in Late Renaissance and Early Baroque Italy
- VI Artusi, Monteverdi, and the Poetics of Modern Music
- VII 'Sfogava con le stelle' Reconsidered: Some Thoughts on the Analysis of Monteverdi's Mantuan Madrigals
- VIII Resemblance and Representation: Towards a New Aesthetic in the Music of Monteverdi
- IX Possente spirto: On Taming the Power of Music
- X Intriguing Laments: Sigismondo d'India, Claudio Monteverdi, and Dido alla parmigiana (1628)
- XI In Love's Harmonious Consort'? Penelope and the Interpretation of Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
- XII Re-Reading Poppea: Some Thoughts on Music and Meaning in Monteverdi's Last Opera
- Index
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