Music and meaning
Subtitle: studies in music history and the neighbouring disciplines
By: Warren and Ursula Kirkendale.
Contributors: Kirkendale, Ursula.
Series: Historiae Musicae Cultores -- 113; Historiae Musicae Cultores (Series) -- 113.
Publisher: Leo S. Olschki Editore
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Firenze
Language: eng
Number of pages: 643
ISBN-13: 9788822256591
Subjects: Music -- History and criticism.
Notes: Principally reprints of articles and lectures originally published 1963-2002.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 601-605) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Circulatio-tradition, Maria lactans, and Josquin as musical orator ; Ciceronians versus Aristotelians on the ricercar as exordium, from Bembo to Bach ; On the rhetorical interpretation of the ricercar and J.S. Bach's Musical offering ; Franceschina, Girometta, and their companions in a madrigal a diversi linguaggi by Luca Marenzio and Orazio Vecchi ; The myth of the "birth of opera" in the Florentine Camerata deflated with the Roman gentleman Emilio de' Cavalieri ; Sul primo Orfeo di Monteverdi, Francesco Rasi : compositore, poeta, cantante, omicida / Warren Kirkendale; title: The King of Heaven and the King of France : on a topos in the manner of Lully ; The War of the Spanish Succession reflected in music by Antonio Caldara (Mantua, Milan, Vienna, Rome) ; The Ruspoli documents on Handel ; Organ playing in the Lateran and other remembrances on Handel : a report in the Voiage historique of 1737 ; Handel with Ruspoli : new documents from the Archivio segreto vaticano, 1706-1708 ; The source for Bach's Musical offering : the Institutio oratoria of Quintilian ; A review of the facsimile edition of J.S. Bach's Musical offering / Ursula Kirkendale; title: The Baroque Mozart ; Ancient rhetorical traditions in Beethoven's Missa solemnis ; Gregorian style in Beethoven's String quartet op. 132 ; The Great fugue, op. 133 : Beethoven's Art of fugue ; "Segreto comunicato da Paganini" : a history of harmonics on the violin ; "As a historian I live with the past" : an interview of Péter Halász with Warren Kirkendale ; On "sources" for music history / Warren Kirkendale.