Monteverdi And The Marvellous

Author : Roseen Giles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009355341
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monteverdi and the Marvellous written by Roseen Giles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Roseen Giles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100935535X
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monteverdi and the Marvellous written by Roseen Giles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the path-breaking interaction between language and music in Monteverdi's madrigals through the provocative poetics of the marvellous.

Author : Tim Carter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197759211
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monteverdi's Voices written by Tim Carter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-24 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ah, alas!" The "faithful shepherd" Mirtillo's woeful sigh of unrequited love, delivered with outrageous musical dissonances, has rung through the ages since the first publication of Claudio Monteverdi's madrigal "Cruda Amarilli" in 1605. But there is far more to the composer's nine books of madrigals than dissonant progressions--they are an integral part of the intellectual, artistic, and practical worlds of creation and performance in Italian musical and literary culture of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. 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. Author 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). Carter offers a more holistic perspective than has been adopted in the partial studies of Monteverdi's madrigals to date and moves far beyond conventional views of the composer and his work. He considers how Monteverdi engaged with poetry, with sound, and with the performers for whom he was writing. As Carter shows, Monteverdi was irascible, exasperating, and prone to error. Yet his astonishing musical mind was also inventive, playful, and capable of the most extraordinary wit--producing madrigals that continue to invite new approaches both to their study and to their performance.

Author : Claudio Monteverdi
Publisher : Alma Books
ISBN 13 : 0714545198
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Operas of Monteverdi written by Claudio Monteverdi and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 than thirty 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.Contents: Operas contained in this volume: Orfeo, Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria, L'incoronazione di Poppea; Monteverdi, Opera and History, lain Fenlon; On Translating Opera, Anne Ridler; PART ONE: Mantua; A masterpiece for a Court, John Whenham; Music Examples; 'Orfeo': Favola in musica by Alessandro Striggio the Younger; Orfeo: English singing version by Anne Ridler; PART TWO: Venice; Musical Theatre in Venice, Paolo Fabbri; The Spanish Contribution to the Birth of Opera, Jack Sage; Monteverdi Returns to his Homeland, Tim Carter; Musical Examples; ll ritorno d'Ulisse in patria: Dramma in musica by Giacomo Badoaro; The Return of Ulysses: English singing version by Anne Ridler; Public Vice, Private Virtue, lain Fenlon and Peter Miller; Musical Examples; L'incoronazione di Poppea: Opera musicale by Giovanni Francesco Busenello; The Coronation of Poppea: English singing version by Anne Ridler

Author : Paolo Fabbri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521033350
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monteverdi written by Paolo Fabbri and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paolo Fabbri's Monteverdi, first published in Italian, is the leading study of the greatest composer of late Renaissance and early Baroque Italy, rightly called the "father of modern music." A large number of contemporary documents, including some 130 of his own letters, offer rich insights into the composer and his times, also illuminating the many and varied contexts for music-making in the most important musical centers in Italy. This newly revised translation brings an indispensable text to a much broader readership.

Author : John Whenham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139828223
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi written by John Whenham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-13 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : David R. B. Kimbell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521466431
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italian Opera written by David R. B. Kimbell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Kimbell traces the history of Italian opera from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century.

Author : Gary Tomlinson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520910109
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monteverdi and the End of the Renaissance written by Gary Tomlinson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-07-09 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining a close study of Monteverdi's secular works with recent research on late Renaissance history, Gary Tomlinson places the composer's creative career in its broad cultural context and illuminates the state of Italian music, poetry, and ideology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Author : Henry Prunières
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monteverdi, His Life and Work written by Henry Prunières and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lecturer in Music Royal Holloway and Bedford New College Tim Carter
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300096767
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monteverdi's Musical Theatre written by Lecturer in Music Royal Holloway and Bedford New College Tim Carter and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.