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Music and culture in Italy from the Middle Ages to the Baroque : a collection of essays
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Online
Details
- Creator
- Nino Pirrotta
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1984
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 485 pages) : illustrations, music
- ISBNs
- 9780674591080, 0674591089
- OCLC
- ocn654780827
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-470) and index.
- 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