Music and the myth of Arcadia in Renaissance Italy
By: Giuseppe Gerbino.
Series: New perspectives in music history and criticism
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 445
ISBN-13: 9780521899567
Subjects: Music -- Italy -- 16th century -- History and criticism; Music and mythology; Arkadia (Greece) -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Music in Arcadia : an unsettled tradition; title: The idiosyncrasies of chronology; title: The return of the shepherd; title: Musical remedies; title: On the cusp between language and music; title: Musical eclipses : theater; title: The boundaries of the genre; title: Singing like shepherds, singing like peasants; title: Ruzante's song and the rustic picturesque; title: Re-founding pastoral theater; title: The (female) performance of high culture : the madrigal; title: A pastoral society; title: The dark side of Arcadia; title: Marenzio's utopia of the senses; title: Lost in Arcadia; title: Epilogue : Pastoral, opera and the impossibility of tragedy.