MONTEVERDI AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES by Tim Carter ( 9780860788232 )

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Title:

MONTEVERDI AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES

By:

Tim Carter

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0860788237

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

20 November, 2000

Series:

Variorum Collected Studies CS 690

Pages:

270

Description:

An exploration of Monteverdi and his contemporaries. It discusses the rise of the "new music" for solo voice and basso continuo in late 16th- and early 17th-century Florence, then moves on to broader aesthetic issues crystallized in contemporary theoretical debate and musical practice.

Synopsis:

This collection of reprinted essays takes the trends of the author's Music, Patronage and Printing in Late Renaissance Florence (also in the 'Variorum' series) in a somewhat different direction. If the focus there was primarily on archival documents, here it is on the actual music. The starting-point is similar - the rise of the 'new music' for solo voice and basso continuo in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Florence, in particular the songs of Giulio Caccini. But it moves on to broader aesthetic issues crystallized in contemporary theoretical debate and musical practice - not least the rise of aria-based styles - and concludes with a series of studies of Claudio Monteverdi's works for the theatre, including the operas Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (1640) and the ever-problematic L'incoronazione di Poppea (1643).

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Includes 9 b&w illustrations

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Variorum

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