| Series |
Variorum collected study series ; C690
Collected studies ; CS690. ^A355371
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| Contents |
Music publishing in Italy, c. 1580-c. 1625: Some preliminary observations -- On the composition and performance of Caccini's Le nuove musiche (1602) -- Caccini's Amarilli, mia bella: Some questions (and a few answers) -- New songs for old? Guarini and the Monody -- An air new and grateful to the ear: The concept of aria in late Renaissance and early Baroque Italy -- Artusi, Monteverdi, and the poetics of modern music -- 'Sfogava con le stelle' reconsidered: Some thoughts on the analysis of Monteverdi's Mantuan Madrigals -- Resemblance and representation: Towards a new aesthetic in the music of Monteverdi -- Possente spirto: On taming the power of music -- Intriguing laments: Sigismondo d'India, Claudio Monteverdi, and Dido alla parmigiana (1628). |
| Abstract |
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). |
| General note | Reprinted edition of 2000 Ashgate edition. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 00061798 |
| ISBN | 0860788237 |
| ISBN | 9780860788232 |
