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Author Pirrotta, Nino.

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

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1984.

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 Talbott: Circulating Collection  ML290.1 .P66    Available  ---
Description xiv, 485 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm.
Series Studies in the history of music ; 1
Studies in the history of music (Cambridge, Mass.) ; 1.
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 363-470.
Note Includes index.
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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Lame horse and the coachman: news of the operatic Parnassus in 1642 -- Falsirena and the earliest Cavatina -- Commedia dell'Arte and opera.
Subject Music -- Italy -- History and criticism.
Music.
Italy.
Indexed Term Italian music, 1000-1600
Subject Musique -- Italie -- Histoire et critique.
Muziek.
Barok.
ISBN 0674591089 alkaline paper
9780674591080 alkaline paper