From madrigal to opera : Monteverdi's staging of the self / Mauro Calcagno.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Calcagno, Mauro P.

Series:

ACLS Fellows' Publications.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monteverdi, Claudio, 1567-1643. Operas.

Monteverdi, Claudio.

Monteverdi, Claudio, 1567-1643. Madrigals.

Petrarchism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Monteverdi's staging of the self

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This pathbreaking study links two traditionally separate genres as their stars crossed to explore the emergence of multiple selves in early modern Italian culture and society. Mauro Calcagno focuses on the works of Claudio Monteverdi, a master of both genres, to investigate how they reflect changing ideas about performance and role-playing by singers. Calcagno traces the roots of dialogic subjectivity to Petrarch's love poetry arguing that Petrarchism exerted a powerful influence not only on late Renaissance literature and art, but also on music. Covering more than a century of music and cultural history, the book demonstrates that the birth of opera relied on an important feature of the madrigalian tradition: the role of the composer as a narrative agent enabling performers to become characters and hold a specific point of view.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One. La Musica and Orfeo

Part Two. Constructing the Narrator

Part Three. Staging the Self

Epilogue: Subjectivity, Theatricality, Multimediality

Appendix 1: Tables of Contents of the Madrigal Books

Appendix 2: Monteverdi, Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda: Text and Translation

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613520661

9781280108747

1280108746

9780520951525

0520951522

OCLC:

782879943