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Music and Culture in Italy from the Middle Ages to the Baroque
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Foreword vii
  3. Preface ix
  4. Contents xiii
  5. 1 Musica de sono humano and the Musical Poetics of Guido of Arezzo 1
  6. 2 Dante Musicus: Gothicism, Scholasticism, and Music 13
  7. 3 Ars Nova and Stil Novo 26
  8. 4 Polyphonic Music for a Text Attributed to Frederick II 39
  9. 5 New Glimpses of an Unwritten Tradition 51
  10. 6 The Oral and Written Traditions of Music 72
  11. 7 Music and Cultural Tendencies in Fifteenth-Century Italy 80
  12. 8 Church Polyphony Apropos of a New Fragment at Foligno 113
  13. 9 Zacara da Teramo 126
  14. 10 Ricercare and Variations on Ο Rosa Bella 145
  15. 11 Novelty and Renewal in Italy, 1300-1600 159
  16. 12 Willaert and the Canzone Villanesca 175
  17. 13 Notes on Marenzio and Tasso 198
  18. 14 The Orchestra and Stage in Renaissance Intermedi and Early Opera 210
  19. 15 Temperaments and Tendencies in the Florentine Camerata 217
  20. 16 Monteverdi and the Problems of Opera 235
  21. 17 Theater, Sets, and Music in Monteverdi's Operas 254
  22. 18 Monteverdi's Poetic Choices 271
  23. 19 Early Venetian Libretti at Los Angeles 317
  24. 20 The Lame Horse and the Coachman: News of the Operatic Parnassus in 1642 325
  25. 21 Falsirena and the Earliest Cavatina 335
  26. 22 Commedia dell'Arte and Opera 343
  27. Notes 363
  28. Index 471
https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674863620.c18

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Foreword vii
  3. Preface ix
  4. Contents xiii
  5. 1 Musica de sono humano and the Musical Poetics of Guido of Arezzo 1
  6. 2 Dante Musicus: Gothicism, Scholasticism, and Music 13
  7. 3 Ars Nova and Stil Novo 26
  8. 4 Polyphonic Music for a Text Attributed to Frederick II 39
  9. 5 New Glimpses of an Unwritten Tradition 51
  10. 6 The Oral and Written Traditions of Music 72
  11. 7 Music and Cultural Tendencies in Fifteenth-Century Italy 80
  12. 8 Church Polyphony Apropos of a New Fragment at Foligno 113
  13. 9 Zacara da Teramo 126
  14. 10 Ricercare and Variations on Ο Rosa Bella 145
  15. 11 Novelty and Renewal in Italy, 1300-1600 159
  16. 12 Willaert and the Canzone Villanesca 175
  17. 13 Notes on Marenzio and Tasso 198
  18. 14 The Orchestra and Stage in Renaissance Intermedi and Early Opera 210
  19. 15 Temperaments and Tendencies in the Florentine Camerata 217
  20. 16 Monteverdi and the Problems of Opera 235
  21. 17 Theater, Sets, and Music in Monteverdi's Operas 254
  22. 18 Monteverdi's Poetic Choices 271
  23. 19 Early Venetian Libretti at Los Angeles 317
  24. 20 The Lame Horse and the Coachman: News of the Operatic Parnassus in 1642 325
  25. 21 Falsirena and the Earliest Cavatina 335
  26. 22 Commedia dell'Arte and Opera 343
  27. Notes 363
  28. Index 471
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