The Cambridge companion to Monteverdi / edited by John Whenham and Richard Wistreich.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Description
xxi, 358 p. : ill., music ; 26 cm.

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Series
Cambridge companions to music [More in this series]
Bibliographic references
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-338) and index.
  • Includes discography.
Contents
  • Approaching Monteverdi : his cultures and ours / Anthony Pryer
  • Musical sources / Tim Carter
  • A model musical education : Monteverdi's early works ; '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 ; 'Ahi, come a un vago sol cortese giro' (1605) / Massimo Ossi
  • Orfeo (1607) / Joachim Steinheuer
  • The Mantuan sacred music ; 'Laetatus sum' (1610) / Jeffrey Kurtzman
  • Music in Monteverdi's Venice / Iain Fenlon
  • The Venetian secular music ; Lamento della ninfa (1638) / Tim Carter
  • The Venetian sacred music ; Magnificat SV 281 (1641) / John Whenham
  • Monteverdi's late operas ; Il ritorno d'Ulisse (1640), Act V, scene 10 / Ellen Rosand
  • Monteverdi studies and 'new' musicologies / Suzanne G. Cusick
  • Monteverdi in performance / Richard Wistreich.
ISBN
  • 9780521875257 (hbk.)
  • 0521875250 (hbk.)
  • 9780521697989 (pbk.)
  • 0521697980 (pbk.)
OCLC
171552703
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