Download or read book Opera in Seventeenth Century Venice written by Ellen Rosand and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this elegantly constructed study of the early decades of public opera, the conflicts and cooperation of poets, composers, managers, designers, and singers—producing the art form that was soon to sweep the world and that has been dominant ever since—are revealed in their first freshness."—Andrew Porter "This will be a standard work on the subject of the rise of Venetian opera for decades. Rosand has provided a decisive contribution to the reshaping of the entire subject. . . . She offers a profoundly new view of baroque opera based on a solid documentary and historical-critical foundation. The treatment of the artistic self-consciousness and professional activities of the librettists, impresarios, singers, and composers is exemplary, as is the examination of their reciprocal relations. This work will have a positive effect not only on studies of 17th-century, but on the history of opera in general."—Lorenzo Bianconi

Download or read book Painting in Renaissance Sie written by Keith Christiansen and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1988 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of an exhibition which opened at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Dec. 20, 1988. This first comprehensive study in English devoted to Sienese painting to be published in four decades centers on the fifteenth century, a fascinating but frequently neglected period when Sienese artists confronted the innovations of Renaissance painting in Florence. Two introductory essays survey fifteenth-century Sienese painting, and individual entries examine 139 key works in exhaustive detail, presenting new insights into long-debated issues of interpretation and attribution, and often utilizing previously unpublished material. Most of the major paintings are reproduced in color and supplemented with illustrations of related comparative works.

Download or read book Music in Renaissance Cities and Courts written by Jessie Ann Owens and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A festschrift prepared for the occasion of musicologist Lewis Lockwood's 65th birthday. The volume's 27 contributions, written by Lockwood's students and American colleagues, cover topics including tonal color in Dufay; notes on a Josquin motet and its sources; the Florentine madrigal, 1540-60; and a model for a changing aesthetic in the chansons of Loyset Compere. An appendix lists Lockwood's publications on Renaissance music.

Download or read book The Image of the Individual written by Nicholas Mann and published by British Museum Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays develop and challenge the supposition that the portrait in the Renaissance is connected with the 'cult of personality' which emerged in the 15th century and provoked people to record their features accurately.

Download or read book The Italian Madrigal written by Alfred Einstein and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Blason Po tique written by Alison Saunders and published by Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1981 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book - the first full-length study of the blason poétique examines the evolution of this French genre in the course of the sixteenth century, but also traces its earliest heraldic origins and indicates its subsequent development into the seventeenth century. The blason is treated in general but attention is concentrated particularly upon the anatomical blasons and contreblasons written by Clément Marot and his contemporaries in the 1530s and 1540s with a revaluation of their chronology in the light of hitherto «lost» editions, and an examination of the poems themselves and their debt both to the native French tradition and to Italian influences. Parallels are traced with contemporary illustrated verse, and the study attempts to demonstrate how - far from being an ephemeral eccentricity - the genre fits into the overall pattern of sixteenth-century French verse.

Download or read book Music and Context written by John Milton Ward and published by [Cambridge, Mass.] : Department of Music, Harvard University. This book was released on 1985 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays that follow show some of the many directions taken by John ward's students and colleagues, whose lives he has touched through both professional contact and personal friendship.

Download or read book Politics Patriotism and Language written by William J. Landon and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Niccolò Machiavelli may not have been a cynical realist as he is often portrayed. On the contrary, this book argues that he precociously possessed the characteristics of an impassioned, sometimes misguided idealist, obsessed with the idea of Italian unification, but blinded to the practicalities of attaining that goal. William J. Landon suggests that these characteristics may help to explain his appeal to Italy's «Risorgimento» founders. This interdisciplinary volume, which also contains the first translation of a «Discourse or Dialogue Concerning our Language» since 1961, works well as a core text, or as a complement to courses in Renaissance history, literature or political science.

Download or read book The Motet in the Age of Du Fay written by Julie E. Cumming and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-16 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A re-evaluation of the Latin-texted motet during the age of Du Fay.

Download or read book Federico Borromeo and the Ambrosiana written by Pamela M. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1993-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers Federico Borromeo's artistic reform program in light of his own notions of the roles of art in Christian society.

Download or read book A Linguistic History of Venice written by Ronnie Ferguson and published by Librarie Droz. This book was released on 2007 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive study of the history, status and structures, past and present, of Venetian. It provides a full, contextualised account, using detailed linguistic and historical data, of the emergence of Venetian in the medieval period, of its evolving status as a written as well as spoken medium within the Republic of Venice and of its enduring prestige as a spoken 'dialect' in an Italy rapidly moving towards monolingualism.English text.--Publisher website.

Download or read book The Poems written by John Davies and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1975-11-27 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poems

Download or read book The Counter Reformation and the Masses of Vincenzo Ruffo written by Lewis Lockwood and published by [Wien] : Universal Edition. This book was released on 1970 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Scoring for Voice written by Jimmy Joyce and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scoring for Voice is a comprehensive, easy-to-use guide covering all aspects of vocal arranging. It includes a compact disc containing 50 examples of arranging techniques found in the text and covers such topics as scoring for 2-, 3-, and 4-part voices, scoring behind a soloist, vocal ranges, rehearsal techniques and voice-leading concepts.

Download or read book The Court Musicians in Florence During the Principate of the Medici written by Warren Kirkendale and published by Firenze : L.S. Olschki. This book was released on 1993 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: