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VG/VG (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. Light shelfwear to boards, light bumping to upper block. ) Green cloth boards with gilt lettering; white and green illustrated dj, mylar cover; xii, 280 pp, numerous bw musical illustrations. An exploration of Monteverdi's secular works toward the end of the Renaissance, including a discussion of their meaning within the social and historical context of that time. Contents: Oppositions in late-Renaissance thought: three case studies--The perfection of musical rhetoric--Youthful imitatio and the first discovery of Tasso (books I and II)--Wert, Tasso, and the heroic style (book III)--Guarini and the epigrammatic style (books III and IV)--Excursus 1: A speculative chronology of the madrigals of books IV and V--Guarini, Rinuccini, and the ideal of musical speech--Excursus 2: The reconciliation of dramatic and epigrammatic thetoric in the Sestina of book VI--The emergence of new ideals--Marino and the musical eclogue (book VI)--Marinism and the madrigal, I (book VII)--Marinism and the madrigal, II (developments after book VII)--The meeting of Petrarchan and Marinist ideals (the last opera)--The end of the Renaissance--Monteverdi and Italian culture, 1550-1700--Works cited--Index of Monteverdi's works and their texts.
Add this copy of Monteverdi and the End of the Renaissance to cart. $76.74, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1992 by University of California Press.
