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Monteverdi and the end of the Renaissance / Gary Tomlinson.
De Gruyter University of California Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tomlinson, Gary, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Monteverdi, Claudio, 1567-1643. Vocal music.
- Monteverdi, Claudio.
- Renaissance--Italy.
- Renaissance.
- Vocal music--17th century--History and criticism.
- Vocal music.
- Vocal music--16th century--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (293 p.)
- Other Title:
- Monteverdi.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [1990]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Combining a close study of Monteverdi's secular works with recent research on late Renaissance history, Gary Tomlinson places the composer's creative career in its broad cultural context and illuminates the state of Italian music, poetry, and ideology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Oppositions in Late-Renaissance Thought: Three Case Studies
- The Perfection of Musical Rhetoric
- 2. Youthful Imitatio and the First Discovery of Tasso (Books I and II)
- 3. Wert, Tasso, and the Heroic Style (Book III)
- 4. Guarini and the Epigrammatic Style (Books III and IV)
- EXCURSUS 1: A Speculative Chronology of the Madrigals of Books IV and V
- 5. Guarini, Rinuccini, and the Ideal of Musical Speech
- EXCURSUS 2: The Reconciliation of Dramatic and Epigrammatic Rhetoric in the Sestina of Book VI
- 6. Marino and the Musical Eclogue (Book VI)
- 7. Marinism and the Madrigal, I (Book VII)
- 8. Marinism and the Madrigal, II (Developments after Book VII)
- 9. The Meeting of Petrarchan and Marinist Ideals (The Last Operas)
- 10. Monteverdi and Italian Culture, 1550-1700
- Works Cited
- Index of Monteverdi's Works and Their Texts
- General Index
- Notes:
- Includes indexes.
- Cover title: Monteverdi.
- Bibliography: p. 261-270.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786612355684
- 9781282355682
- 1282355686
- 9780520910102
- 0520910109
- 9780585384047
- 0585384045
- OCLC:
- 630527772
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