Description |
xiv, 485 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm. |
Series |
Studies in the history of music ; 1
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Studies in the history of music (Cambridge, Mass.) ; 1.
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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.
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Music. |
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Italy. |
Indexed Term |
Italian music, 1000-1600 |
Subject |
Musique -- Italie -- Histoire et critique. |
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Muziek. |
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Barok. |
ISBN |
0674591089 alkaline paper |
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9780674591080 alkaline paper |
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