Essays on Italian poetry and music in the Renaissance, 1350-1600 / James Haar.

Author/creator Haar, James
Format Book
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press, ©1986.
Descriptionxvii, 245 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subjects
Vocal music--Italy. --500-1400.
Vocal music--Italy. --15th century.
Vocal music--Italy. --16th century.
Italian poetry--To 1400.
Italian poetry--15th century.
Italian poetry--16th century.
Arts, Renaissance--Italy.

SeriesErnest Bloch lectures ; 1983
Ernest Bloch lectures ; 1983. ^A19935
Contents The trecento -- The puzzle of the quattrocento -- The early madrigal: humanistic theory in practical guise -- Improvvisatori and their relationship to sixteenth-century music -- Italian music in the age of the Counter-reformation -- The rise of the Baroque aesthetic -- Appendix: Musical examples.
Abstract These essays illuminate the changing nature of text-music relationships from the time of Petrarch to Guarini and, in music, from the madrigals of Giovanni da Cascia to those of Gesualdo da Venosa. This book traces a line of development from the stylized rhetoric of Trecento song through the popularizing trends of Quattrocento music and on to the union of verbal and musical cadence that marked the high Renaissance in sixteenth-century Italian music.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 85001009
ISBN0520053974
ISBN9780520053977