Author : Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 19,67 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781574670233
(Amadeus). This collection of lectures, talks, and essays focuses on three major composers of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Author : Claudio Monteverdi
Publisher : Oneworld Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,84 MB
Release : 2011-02
Category : Operas
ISBN : 9780714544465
English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original. Monteverdi s 1607 version of the legend of Orpheus is arguably the first masterpiece of opera. Composed for the court of Mantua, where Monteverdi was employed, it is very different from his two other surviving operas, which he wrote more than30 years later to entertain Venetian audiences in the first public opera houses. Orfeo was long considered untranslatable, because the text is so closely tied to the music, and the Venetian librettos owe some of their brilliance to Spanish Golden Age theatre. This opera guide is an opportunity to read all three of Monteverdi s stage works together, in Anne Ridler s graceful translations."
Author : John Whenham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 35,41 MB
Release : 1986-02-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521284776
A detailed study of the earliest opera to have gained a foothold in the modern repertoire, the book begins with a historical section in which all the known evidence about the creation and early performances of Orfeo is drawn together and evaluated. The second section of the book includes a detailed history of the rediscovery of the opera; an influential essay by Joseph Kerman is reprinted here, together with a review by Romain Rolland of the first modern performance of Orfeo. The final section includes essays by a conductor and a producer who have staged notable performances of the opera in recent years. They explain their approaches to the work, and offer solutions to some of the problems it poses in performance.
Author : Mark Ringer
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 30,70 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781574671100
"Includes full-length Harmonia Mundi CD"--Cover, p. 1.
Author : Lecturer in Music Royal Holloway and Bedford New College Tim Carter
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,6 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 : Joel Schwindt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 46,99 MB
Release : 2021-08-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 1000431339
This book introduces a new perspective on Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607), a work widely regarded as the 'first great opera', by exploring the influence of the Mantuan Accademia deglia Invaghiti, the group which hosted the opera’s performance, and to which the libretto author, Alessandro Striggio the Younger, belonged. Arguing that the Invaghiti played a key role in shaping the development of Orfeo, the author explores the philosophical underpinnings of the Invaghiti and Italian academies of the era. Drawing on new primary sources, he shows how the Invaghiti’s ideas about literature, dramaturgy, music, gender, and aesthetics were engaged and contested in the creation and staging of Orfeo. Relevant to researchers of music history, performance, and Renaissance and Baroque Italy, this study sheds new light on Monteverdi’s opera as an intellectual and philosophical work.
Author : Glen Segell
Publisher : Glen Segell Publishers
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 46,94 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Music
ISBN : 1901414027
Author : John Whenham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 17,69 MB
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 1139828223
Claudio Monteverdi is one of the most important figures of 'early' music, a composer whose music speaks powerfully and directly to modern audiences. This book, first published in 2007, provides an authoritative treatment of Monteverdi and his music, complementing Paolo Fabbri's standard biography of the composer. Written by leading specialists in the field, it is aimed at students, performers and music-lovers in general and adds significantly to our understanding of Monteverdi's music, his life, and the contexts in which he worked. Chapters offering overviews of his output of sacred, secular and dramatic music are complemented by 'intermedi', in which contributors examine individual works, or sections of works in detail. The book draws extensively on Monteverdi's letters and includes a select discography/videography and a complete list of Monteverdi's works together with an index of first lines and titles.
Author : Susan Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 30,76 MB
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 1135042926
Claudio Monteverdi: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography that navigates the vast scholarly resources on the composer with the most updated compilation since 1989. Claudio Monteverdi transformed and mastered the principal genres of his day and his works influenced generations of musicians and other artists. He initiated one of the most important aesthetic debates of the era by proposing a new relationship between poetry and harmony. In addition to scholarship by musicologists and music theorists, Monteverdi’s music has attracted attention from literary scholars, cultural historians, and critical theorists. Research into Monteverdi and Renaissance and early baroque studies has expanded greatly, with the field becoming more complex as scholars address such issues as gender theory, feminist criticism, cultural theory, new criticism, new historicism, and artistic and popular cultures. The guide serves both as a foundational starting point and as a gateway for future inquiry in such fields as court culture, opera, patronage, and Italian poetry.
Author : Esther M. Morgan-Ellis
Publisher :
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 27,82 MB
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781940771311
Resonances: Engaging Music in Its Cultural Context offers a fresh curriculum for the college-level music appreciation course. The musical examples are drawn from classical, popular, and folk traditions from around the globe. These examples are organized into thematic chapters, each of which explores a particular way in which human beings use music. Topics include storytelling, political expression, spirituality, dance, domestic entertainment, and more. The chapters and examples can be taught in any order, making Resonances a flexible resource that can be adapted to your teaching or learning needs. This textbook is accompanied by a complete set of PowerPoint slides, a test bank, and learning objectives.
