Monteverdi's voices : a poetics of the madrigal /

While Monteverdi is also recognized for his operas and sacred works, it is no surprise that the madrigal dominated his output through his long career in Cremona, Mantua, and Venice. Tim Carter illustrates how the composer's wonderfully witty settings of Italian verse ran the gamut from composit...

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1. Verfasser:
Carter, Tim
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Zusammenfassung:
While Monteverdi is also recognized for his operas and sacred works, it is no surprise that the madrigal dominated his output through his long career in Cremona, Mantua, and Venice. Tim Carter illustrates how the composer's wonderfully witty settings of Italian verse ran the gamut from compositions in the traditional polyphonic style for five unaccompanied voices to those in more modern idioms for one or more singers and instruments. Their poets included the major figures of the day - Torquato Tasso, Battista Guarini, and Giambattista Marino - as well as the classics, not least of all Petrarch, with texts that embraced all the current literary genres from lyric through epic to dramatic. Monteverdi also repeatedly asked and answered the fundamental question of any musical setting of poetry concerning the relationship between poetic and musical voice(s).
Umfang:
1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages) : illustrations, music
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-775922-X
0-19-775920-3
Schlagworte:
Monteverdi, Claudio, > 1567-1643. > Madrigals.
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