Author : Nino Pirrotta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 18,17 MB
Release : 1982-02-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521232593
This book describes the many ways in which music was used in Italian theatrical performances between the late fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In particular, it concentrates on Polizano's Orfeo, Machiavelli's commedies, the Florentine intermedi and early operas, and the first operas in Venice.
Author : Lecturer in Music Royal Holloway and Bedford New College Tim Carter
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 30,62 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780300096767
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) is well known as the composer of the earliest operas still performed today. His Orfeo, Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria, and L'incoronazione di Poppea are internationally popular nearly four centuries after their creation. These seminal works represent only a part of Monteverdi's music for the stage, however. He also wrote numerous works that, while not operas, are no less theatrical in their fusion of music, drama and dance. This is a survey of Monteverdi's entire output of music for the theatre - his surviving operas, other dramatic musical compositions, and lost works.
Author : Anthony M. Cummings
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 47,75 MB
Release : 2023-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0226822788
"Florence is justly celebrated as one of the world's most important cities. It enjoys mythic status and occupies an enviable place in the historical imagination. But its music-historical importance is less well understood than it should be. If Florence was the city of Dante, Michelangelo, and Galileo, it was also the birthplace of the madrigal, opera, and the piano. This is the only book of its kind, a comprehensive account of music in Florence from the late Middle Ages until the end of the Medici dynasty in the mid-eighteenth century. It recounts the principal developments in the history of Florence's contributions to music and how music was heard and cultivated in the city, from civic and religious institutions to private patronage and the academies. Scholars from sister disciplines and a general readership interested in the history and culture of Florence will find this book an invaluable complement to studies of the art, literature, and political thought of the late-medieval and early-modern eras and the quasi-legendary figures in the Florentine cultural pantheon"--
Author : C. A. Price
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 30,24 MB
Release : 1984-06-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521238311
This book was the first comprehensive survey of Purcell's dramatic music. It is concerned as much with the London theatre world - playhouses, poets, actors, singers, producers - as with the music itself. Purcell wrote music for more than fifty plays of various types, most of them produced at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, between 1690 and 1695. The songs, dialogues, choruses, act tunes and larger musical scenes are often active participants in the spoken drama, not simply grafted-on entertainments. The extraordinary semi-operas - Dioclesian, King Arthur, and The Fairy-Queen - are placed in the context of a theatre that thrived mainly on plays that, though less lavish, were no less musical. The traditional picture of a composer trapped within a degraded musical society, his natural predilection for opera ignored, is redrawn to show a consummate dramatist exploiting a remarkably musical theatre.
Author : George J. Buelow
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 15,47 MB
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253343659
"A History of Baroque Music is a detailed treatment of the music of the Baroque era, with particular focus on the seventeenth century. The author's approach is a history of musical style with an emphasis on musical scores. The book is divided initially by time period into early and later Baroque (1600-1700 and 1700-1750 respectively), and secondarily by country and composer. An introductory chapter discusses stylistic continuity with the late Renaissance and examines the etymology of the term "Baroque." The concluding chapter on the composer Telemann addresses the stylistic shift that led to the end of the Baroque and the transition into the Classical period."--Jacket.
Author : Iain Fenlon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 22,70 MB
Release : 1995-02-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521472821
Concerned with the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the seventeenth century. Includes articles on French 16th-century music, theatre and poetry
Author : Susan Lewis Hammond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 47,17 MB
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 1135967008
The Madrigal: A Research and Information Guide is the first comprehensive annotated bibliography of scholarship on virtually all aspects of madrigal composition, production, and consumption. It contains 1,237 entries for items in English, French, German, and Italian. Scholars, students, teachers, librarians, and performers now have access to this rich literature in a single volume.
Author : Tim Carter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 25,16 MB
Release : 2005-12-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521792738
First published in 2005, this title provides extensive knowledge on seventeenth-century music.
Author : Charulatha Mani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 20,67 MB
Release : 2021-08-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 1108910629
How can the classical Karnatik music of South India illuminate performers' and researchers' understanding of the art music of seventeenth-century Italy, and specifically Monteverdi's operas? Both art forms attach great value to the skill of vocal ornamentation, and by exploring the singer's practice moving between them, this Element reveals how intercultural approaches can enable the reconsideration of the history of Western music from a global perspective. Using methods from historical and comparative musicology, theory and practice-based research, Charulatha Mani analyses vocal ornamentation and technique and arrives at an innovative approach to studying musics from the past. Musical practice, the author argues, is an enactment of hybridity and the artistic product of plurality. Specifically, in early modern Europe the fluid movement of musicians from the East paved the way to a plurality of musical cultures. This finding holds deep implications for diversity in and decolonisation of current music performance and education.
Author : Sean Gallagher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 23,41 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1351549375
Secular music of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries encompasses an extraordinarily wide range of works and practices: courtly love songs, music for civic festivities, instrumental music, entertainments provided by minstrels, the unwritten traditions of solo singing, and much else. This collection of essays addresses many of these practices, with a focus on polyphonic settings of vernacular texts, examining their historical and stylistic contexts, their transmission in written and printed sources, questions of performance, and composers approaches to text setting. Essays have been selected to reflect the wide range of topics that have occupied scholars in recent decades, and taken together, they point to the more general significance of secular music within a broad complex of cultural practices and institutions.
