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Author Cypess, Rebecca, author.

Title Curious and modern inventions : instrumental music as discovery in Galileo's Italy / Rebecca Cypess.

Publication Info. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The paradox of instrumentality: the material and the ephemeral in early modern -- Instrumental music -- Instruments of the affetti: Biagio Marini's Affetti musicali (1617) -- Portraiture in motion: instrumental music and the representation of the Affetti -- "Curiose e moderne inventioni": Biagio Marini's Sonate (1626) and Carlo Farina's "Capriccio stravagante" (1627) as collections of curiosities -- Instruments of timekeeping: the case of Frescobaldi's Toccate e partite ... libro primo -- The stile moderno and the art of history: artisanship and historical consciousness in the works of Dario Castello.
Summary 'Curious and Modern Inventions' offers an insight into the motivating forces behind music, tracing it to a new conception of instruments of all sorts - whether musical, artistic, or scientific - as vehicles of discovery.
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Subject Marini, Biagio, 1597?-1665. Affetti musicali.
Farina, Carlo, approximately 1600-approximately 1640.
Farina, Carlo, approximately 1600-approximately 1640.
Frescobaldi, Girolamo, 1583-1643.
Frescobaldi, Girolamo, 1583-1643.
Castello, Dario, active 1621-1644.
Castello, Dario, active 1621-1644.
Instrumental music -- Italy -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
Instrumental music.
Italy.
Chronological Term 17th century
Genre/Form Instrumental music.
Subject Music -- Italy -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
Music.
Chronological Term 1600-1699
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Cypess, Rebecca. Curious and modern inventions 9780226319445 (DLC) 2015024768 (OCoLC)912140698
ISBN 9780226319582 (electronic book)
022631958X (electronic book)
9780226319445
022631944X