Monteverdi
By: edited by Richard Wistreich
Series: The Baroque composers; Baroque composers
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burling, VT, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 535
ISBN-13: 9780754629023
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; History and criticism; Music
Description: Claudio Monteverdi is now recognized as the towering figure of a critical transitional moment of Western music history: relentless innovator in every genre within chamber, church and theatre music; self-proclaimed leader of a 'new dispensation' between words and their musical expression; perhaps even 'Creator of Modern Music'. The 17 articles in this volume have been selected by Richard Wistreich to exemplify the best scholarship in English and because each, in retrospect, turns out to have been a ground-breaking contribution to one or more significant strands in Monteverdi studies. --from publisher description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Music, text and representation; title: Theory and genre; title: Criticism, analysis and history; title: Institutional, source and performance issues.