Curious & modern inventions
Subtitle: instrumental music as discovery in Galileo's Italy
By: Rebecca Cypess
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780226319445; 9780226319582
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: History and criticism; Music; Instrumental music
Description: Offers insight into the motivating forces behind seventeenth-century Italian music, tracing them to a new conception of instruments of all sorts - whether musical, artistic, or scientific - as vehicles of discovery.
Notes: "Musical works cited": pages 273-275.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-298) and index.
Table of contents: title: The paradox of instrumentality. The material and the ephemeral in early modern instrumental music; title: Instruments of the affetti. Biagio Marini's Affetti musicali (1617); title: Portraiture in motion. Instrumental music and the representation of the Affetti; title: "Curiose e moderne inventioni." Biagio Marini's Sonate (1626) and Carlo Farina's "Capriccio stravagante" (1627) as collections of curiosities; title: Instruments of timekeeping. The case of Frescobaldi's Toccate e partite... libro primo; title: The stile moderno and the art of history. Artisanship and historical consciousness in the works of Dario Castello.