From Madrigal to Opera: Monteverdi's Staging of the Self

by Mauro Calcagno (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2012

  $77.03

  Focuses on the works of Claudio Monteverdi, a master of both genres, to investigate how they reflect changing ideas about performance and role-playing by singers. This title traces the roots of dialogic subjectivity to Petrarch's love poetry arguing that Petrarchism exerted a powerful influence on late Renaissance literature art and music.