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The Cambridge companion to Monteverdi / edited by John Whenham, Richard Wistreich.
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Description
1 online resource (xxi, 358 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Availability
Available Online
Cambridge Companions Complete Collection
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Subject(s)
Monteverdi, Claudio 1567-1643
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Criticism and interpretation
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Editor
Whenham, John
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Wistreich, Richard
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Series
Cambridge companions to music.
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Summary note
Claudio Monteverdi is one of the most important figures of 'early' music, a composer whose music speaks powerfully and directly to modern audiences. This book, first published in 2007, provides an authoritative treatment of Monteverdi and his music, complementing Paolo Fabbri's standard biography of the composer. Written by leading specialists in the field, it is aimed at students, performers and music-lovers in general and adds significantly to our understanding of Monteverdi's music, his life, and the contexts in which he worked. Chapters offering overviews of his output of sacred, secular and dramatic music are complemented by 'intermedi', in which contributors examine individual works, or sections of works in detail. The book draws extensively on Monteverdi's letters and includes a select discography/videography and a complete list of Monteverdi's works together with an index of first lines and titles.
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English
Contents
Chronology
Approaching Monteverdi : his cultures and ours / Anthony Pryer
Musical sources / Tim Carter
A model musical education : Monteverdi's early works
Intermedio I: 'Ecco mormorar l'onde' (1590) / Geoffrey Chew
Monteverdi at Mantua, 1590-1612 / Roger Bowers
Spaces for music in late Renaissance Mantua / Paola Besutti
The Mantuan madrigals and Scherzi musicali
Intermedio I: 'Ahi, come a un vago sol cortese giro' (1605) / Massimo Ossi
Orfeo (1607) / Joachim Steinheuer
The Mantuan sacred music
Intermedio III: 'Laetatus sum' (1610) / Jeffrey Kurtzman
Music in Monteverdi's Venice / Iain Fenlon
The Venetian secular music
Intermedio IV: Lamento della ninfa (1638) / Tim Carter
The Venetian sacred music / John Whenham
Intermedio V: Magnificat SV 281 (1641) / John Whenham
Monteverdi's late operas / Ellen Rosand
Intermedio VI: Il ritorno d'Ulisse (1640), Act V, scene 10 / Ellen Rosand
Monteverdi studies and 'new' musicologies / Suzanne G. Cusick
Monteverdi in performance / Richard Wistreich.
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ISBN
1-139-81773-6
1-139-00172-8
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