Monteverdi's voices : a poetics of the madrigal / Tim Carter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carter, Tim, 1954- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monteverdi, Claudio, 1567-1643. Madrigals.

Monteverdi, Claudio.

Madrigals, Italian--History and criticism.

Madrigals, Italian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages) : illustrations, music

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

While Monteverdi is also recognized for his operas and sacred works, it is no surprise that the madrigal dominated his output through his long career in Cremona, Mantua, and Venice. Tim Carter illustrates how the composer's wonderfully witty settings of Italian verse ran the gamut from compositions in the traditional polyphonic style for five unaccompanied voices to those in more modern idioms for one or more singers and instruments. Their poets included the major figures of the day - Torquato Tasso, Battista Guarini, and Giambattista Marino - as well as the classics, not least of all Petrarch, with texts that embraced all the current literary genres from lyric through epic to dramatic. Monteverdi also repeatedly asked and answered the fundamental question of any musical setting of poetry concerning the relationship between poetic and musical voice(s).

Contents:

Introduction

The apprentice composer

The madrigal "book"

Monteverdi's performers

Poetic voices

Songbirds

Monteverdi's "mistakes"

Musical (im)pertinence

The "representative" style

Playing with time.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on April 8, 2024).

ISBN:

0-19-775922-X

0-19-775920-3

OCLC:

1417600410