| Description |
1 online resource (300 pages) |
| Series |
Music in Context Series |
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Music in context.
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| Contents |
Introduction. Monteverdi's modes of representation -- The sound of the marvellous -- Marino and the Rime Boscherecce -- Monteverdi's contradictory kisses -- IL Bacio Mordace : of kissing and biting -- Tasso and the music of epic -- Monteverdi's earliest laments |
| Summary |
"Integrating musical and poetic analysis, this book sheds new light on the experience of listening to Monteverdi's path-breaking madrigals. The music of this pivotal figure reveals how composers and performers at the turn of the seventeenth century not only responded to but themselves influenced experiments in language"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Monteverdi, Claudio, 1567-1643. Madrigals.
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Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595 -- Musical settings -- History and criticism
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| SUBJECT |
Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595 fast |
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Madrigals (Monteverdi, Claudio) fast |
| Subject |
Madrigals, Italian -- 16th century -- History and criticism
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Italian poetry -- 16th century -- History and criticism
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Music and language.
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Italian poetry
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Madrigals, Italian
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Music and language
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Musical settings
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781009355384 |
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1009355384 |
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1009355376 |
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9781009355377 |
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