Music and culture in Italy from the Middle Ages to the Baroque : a collection of essays / Nino Pirrotta.

Author/creator Pirrotta, Nino
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1984.
Descriptionxiv, 485 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm.
Subjects

SeriesStudies in the history of music ; 1
Studies in the history of music (Cambridge, Mass.) ; 1. ^A281106
Contents Musica de sono humano and the musical poetics of Guido of Arezzo -- Dante Musicus: gothicism, scholasticism, and music -- Ars nova and stil nova -- Polyphonic music for a text attributed to Frederick II -- New glimpses of an unwritten tradition -- The oral and written traditions of music -- Music and cultural tendencies in fifteenth-century Italy -- Church polyphony apropos of a new fragment at Foligno -- Zaccara da Teramo -- Ricercare and variations on O Rosa Bella -- Novelty and renewal in Italy: 1300-1600 -- Willaert and the Canzone Villanesca -- Notes on Marenzio and Tasso -- The orchestra and stage in Renaissance Intermedi and early opera -- Temperaments and tendencies in the Florentine Camerata -- Monteverdi and the problems of opera -- Theater, sets, and music in Monteverdi's operas -- Monteverdi's poetic choices -- Early Venetian libretti at Los Angeles -- The lame horse and the coachman: news of the operatic Parnassus in 1642 -- Falsirena and the earliest Cavatina -- Commedia dell'Arte and opera.
Abstract The eminent Italian musicologist here analyzes major developments in music during the golden era from Dante to the Italian Baroque.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 363-470) and index.
LCCN 83012827
ISBN0674591089 (alk. paper)

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