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Book Monteverdi

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  • Author : Richard Wistreich
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-07-05
  • ISBN : 1351557971
  • Pages : 561 pages

Download or read book Monteverdi written by Richard Wistreich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claudio Monteverdi is now recognized as the towering figure of a critical transitional moment of Western music history: relentless innovator in every genre within chamber, church and theatre music; self-proclaimed leader of a 'new dispensation' between words and their musical expression; perhaps even 'Creator of Modern Music'. During recent years, as his arrestingly attractive music has been brought back to life in performance, so too have some of the most outstanding musicologists focussed intensely on Monteverdi as they worked through the 'big' questions in the historiography and hermeneutics of early Baroque music, including musical representation of language; compositional theory; social, institutional, cultural and gender history; performance practices and more. The 17 articles in this volume have been selected by Richard Wistreich to exemplify the best scholarship in English and because each, in retrospect, turns out to have been a ground-breaking contribution to one or more significant strands in Monteverdi studies.

Book Monteverdi and his Contemporaries

Download or read book Monteverdi and his Contemporaries written by Tim Carter and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

Book Musical Humanism and Its Legacy

Download or read book Musical Humanism and Its Legacy written by Nancy Kovaleff Baker and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Divining the Oracle

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  • Author : Massimo Ossi
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2003-07-15
  • ISBN : 0226638839
  • Pages : 299 pages

Download or read book Divining the Oracle written by Massimo Ossi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-07-15 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claudio Monteverdi's historical position in music has been compared to that of Shakespeare in literature: almost exact contemporaries, each worked from traditional beginnings to transform nearly every genre he attempted. In this book, Massimo Ossi delves into the most significant aspect of Monteverdi's career: the development, during the first years of the seventeenth century, of a new compositional style he called the seconda prattica or "second manner." Challenged in print for the unconventional aspects of his music, Monteverdi found himself at the center of a debate between defenders of Renaissance principles and the newest musical currents of the time. The principles of the seconda prattica, Ossi argues in this sophisticated analysis of Monteverdi's writings, music, and approaches to text-setting, were in fact much more significant to the course of Monteverdi's career than previously thought by modern scholars-not only did Monteverdi continue to pursue their aesthetic and theoretical implications for the rest of his life, but they also affected his dramatic compositions as well as his chamber vocal music and sacred works. Ossi "divines the oracle" of Monteverdi's ambiguous theoretical concepts in a clear way and in terms of pure music; his book will enhance our understanding of Monteverdi as one of the most significant figures in western music history.

Book Opera in Context

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  • Author : Mark A. Radice
  • Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 1574670328
  • Pages : 417 pages

Download or read book Opera in Context written by Mark A. Radice and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1998 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays by respected scholars examine representative operatic productions from diverse national schools and periods, together forming a comprehensive history of the staging techniques of opera over the centuries.

Book Studies in Music  Words  and Imagery in Early Modern Europe

Download or read book Studies in Music Words and Imagery in Early Modern Europe written by Barbara Russano Hanning and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Characterized by an interdisciplinary approach, these essays highlight the relationship between music and poetry in Italian secular works of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, examine the role of images in shedding light on the cultural context in which these and other works came into being (music iconography), and explore the binaries and similarities of the arts in this period. Insights about early opera are complemented by discussions of accompanied solo song, or monody, both genres new to Italian music at the turn of the seventeenth century. Many chapters focus on specific images, ranging from the figure of Apollo and his significance as the earliest operatic protagonist, to an early eighteenth-century representation of a salon concert and its “ensemblisation” of events that likely occurred serially. Others include discussions and analyses of musical poetics, from Tasso’s influence on the Italian madrigal to Rinuccini’s authorship of the earliest opera libretti. Another focuses on history while narrating the circumstances under which opera came into being in late Renaissance Florence. Addressed in large measure to teachers and students, Studies in Music, Words, and Imagery in Early Modern Europe presents a range of subjects that broaden our perspective on the era. Certain essays take a specifically pedagogical approach, while others are more apt to interest music historians or those familiar with Italian versification. All are presented with a view toward making more accessible essays that do not fit neatly into one subject area but cross boundary lines between music, words, and images.

Book The Madrigal

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  • Author : Susan Lewis Hammond
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 0415801028
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book The Madrigal written by Susan Lewis Hammond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Madrigal: A Research and Information Guide is the first comprehensive bibliography of music literature, editions, and recordings documenting this musical genre. It is the first comprehensive reference work that takes into account the new approaches to music, analysis, and gender that characterize recent contributions to the field of madrigal studies.

Book Journal of the American Musicological Society

Download or read book Journal of the American Musicological Society written by American Musicological Society and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Notes

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  • Author : Music Library Association
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 536 pages

Download or read book Notes written by Music Library Association and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dissertation Abstracts International

Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians  Pohlman to Recital

Download or read book The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Pohlman to Recital written by Stanley Sadie and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Claudio Monteverdi

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  • Author : Paola Besutti
  • Publisher : Librarie Droz
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 684 pages

Download or read book Claudio Monteverdi written by Paola Besutti and published by Librarie Droz. This book was released on 1998 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians  Liturgy to Martinu

Download or read book The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Liturgy to Martinu written by Stanley Sadie and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Approaches to Monteverdi

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  • Author : Jeffrey Kurtzman
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2024-10-28
  • ISBN : 1040246451
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book Approaches to Monteverdi written by Jeffrey Kurtzman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume gathers together twelve essays on the composer’s music, reflecting the author's interests in aesthetic and psychological issues, the sacred works, methods of structural analysis, and the problems of making critical editions. The opera Orfeo and two madrigals from Monteverdi's Book Eight are the subject of aesthetic and psychological investigation, especially from the perspective of Michel Foucault's The Order of Things and the psychology of C.J. Jung, all supported by musical analysis. Two essays analyze in detail the structural principles of the psalms Laetatus sum from the 1610 Vespers and the first Dixit Dominus from the Sevla Morale e spirituale of 1641. Two others re-examine the story of Monteverdi's Mass of Thanksgiving and consider the question of what sacred music Monteverdi actually or likely wrote but is now lost. The final essay critiques and compares the methodology and problems of the Malipiero and Cremona editions of Monteverdi's Opera Omnia. All but one of these essays were originally published over a time span of twenty years in journals, conference reports, Festschriften, and as book chapters. The majority of them were not widely distributed or readily available until now. The essay on the Malipiero and Cremona editions appears here for the first time.

Book Bibliographic Guide to Music

Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Music written by New York Public Library. Music Division and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: