From madrigal to opera
Subtitle: Monteverdi's staging of the self
By: Mauro Calcagno
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berkeley, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780520267688; 9780520951525
Subjects: Petrarchism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: La musica and Orfeo. Text, context, performance ; Liminality, deixis, subjectivity ; Performing the dialogic self; title: Constructing the narrator. From Petrarch to Petrarchism : a rhetoric of voice and address ; In search of voice : musical Petrarchism in the sixteenth-century madrigal; title: Staging the self. Monteverdi, narrator ; The possibility of opera.