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Author Pirrotta, Nino, author.

Title Music and culture in Italy from the Middle Ages to the Baroque : a collection of essays / Nino Pirrotta
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1984

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 485 pages) : illustrations, music
Series Studies in the history of music ; 1
Studies in the history of music (Cambridge, Mass.) ; 1.
Contents Musica de sono humano and the musical poetics of Guido of Arezzo -- Dante Musicus: Gothicism, scholasticism, and music -- Ars nova and stil nova -- Polyphonic music for a text attributed to Frederick II -- New glimpses of an unwritten tradition -- The oral and written traditions of music -- Music and cultural tendencies in fifteenth-century Italy -- Church polyphony apropos of a new fragment at Foligno -- Zaccara da Teramo -- Ricercare and variations on O Rosa Bella -- Novelty and renewal in Italy: 1300-1600 -- Willaert and the Canzone Villanesca -- Notes on Marenzio and Tasso -- The orchestra and stage in Renaissance Intermedi and early opera -- Temperaments and tendencies in the Florentine Camerata -- Monteverdi and the problems of opera -- Theater, sets, and music in Monteverdi's operas -- Monteverdi's poetic choices -- Early Venetian libretti at Los Angeles -- The lame horse and the coachman: news of the operatic Parnassus in 1642 -- Falsirena and the earliest Cavatina -- Commedia dell'Arte and opera
Analysis Italian music, 1000-1600
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-470) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Music -- Italy -- History and criticism
MUSIC -- General.
Music
Musikleben
Aufsatzsammlung
Musik
Muziek.
Barok.
Italy
Italien
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book