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Music and the myth of Arcadia in Renaissance Italy / Giuseppe Gerbino.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML290.2 .G47 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gerbino, Giuseppe.
- Series:
- New perspectives in music history and criticism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Italy--16th century--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Italy.
- Music and mythology.
- Arkadia (Greece)--History.
- Arkadia (Greece).
- Physical Description:
- ix, 445 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- Music in Arcadia : an unsettled tradition
- The idiosyncrasies of chronology
- The return of the shepherd
- Musical remedies
- On the cusp between language and music
- Musical eclipses : theater
- The boundaries of the genre
- Singing like shepherds, singing like peasants
- Ruzante's song and the rustic picturesque
- Re-founding pastoral theater
- The (female) performance of high culture : the madrigal
- A pastoral society
- The dark side of Arcadia
- Marenzio's utopia of the senses
- Lost in Arcadia
- Epilogue : Pastoral, opera and the impossibility of tragedy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [400]-436) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780521899567
- 0521899567
- OCLC:
- 268793380
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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