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