Music and Culture in Italy from the Middle Ages to the Baroque : A Collection of Essays / Nino Pirrotta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pirrotta, Nino, author.

Series:

Studies in the History of Music

Studies in the History of Music ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Italy--History and criticism.

Local Subjects:

Music--Italy--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (499 p.): Zahlr. Abb.

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Preface

Contents

1 Musica de sono humano and the Musical Poetics of Guido of Arezzo

2 Dante Musicus: Gothicism, Scholasticism, and Music

3 Ars Nova and Stil Novo

4 Polyphonic Music for a Text Attributed to Frederick II

5 New Glimpses of an Unwritten Tradition

6 The Oral and Written Traditions of Music

7 Music and Cultural Tendencies in Fifteenth-Century Italy

8 Church Polyphony Apropos of a New Fragment at Foligno

9 Zacara da Teramo

10 Ricercare and Variations on Ο Rosa Bella

11 Novelty and Renewal in Italy, 1300-1600

12 Willaert and the Canzone Villanesca

13 Notes on Marenzio and Tasso

14 The Orchestra and Stage in Renaissance Intermedi and Early Opera

15 Temperaments and Tendencies in the Florentine Camerata

16 Monteverdi and the Problems of Opera

17 Theater, Sets, and Music in Monteverdi's Operas

18 Monteverdi's Poetic Choices

19 Early Venetian Libretti at Los Angeles

20 The Lame Horse and the Coachman: News of the Operatic Parnassus in 1642

21 Falsirena and the Earliest Cavatina

22 Commedia dell'Arte and Opera

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-86362-3

OCLC:

654780827