Word, Image, and Song, Vol. 1: Essays on Early Modern Italy (Eastman Studies in Music, 101)

Word, Image, and Song, Vol. 1: Essays on Early Modern Italy (Eastman Studies in Music, 101)

by Deborah Howard (Contributor), Gary Tomlinson (Contributor), Giuseppe Mazzotta (Contributor), Barbara Russano Hanning (Contributor), Alan Curtis (Contributor), Beth Glixon (Contributor), Margaret Murata (Contributor), Mauro Calcagno (Contributor), Deborah Howard (Contributor), Gary Tomlinson (Contributor), Giuseppe Mazzotta (Contributor), Barbara Russano Hanning (Contributor), Alan Curtis (Contributor), Mauro Calcagno (Contributor), Dinko Fabris (Contributor), Wendy Heller (Contributor), Alvaro Torrente (Contributor), Andrew H. Weaver (Contributor), Beth L. Glixon (Editor), Jennifer Williams Brown (Contributor), Jonathan E. Glixon (Contributor), Nathan Link (Editor), Prof David Rosand (Contributor), Rebecca Cypess (Editor), Robert R. Holzer (Contributor), Ruth I. DeFord (Contributor), Susan Parker Shimp (Contributor), Suzanne G. Cusick (Contributor)

Synopsis

The rich cultural environment of early modern Italy inspired a vast array of musical innovations: this was the first age of the virtuoso performer, the era that witnessed the beginnings of opera, and a moment that saw the intersection and cross-fertilization of madrigals and songs of all sorts. Word, Image, and Song: Essays on Early Modern Italy presents a broad range of approaches to the study of music and related arts in that era. Topics include musical source studies, issues of performance, poetry and linguistics, influences on music from the classical tradition, and the interconnectedness of music and visual art. Their points of departure include well-known musical works such as Monteverdi's madrigals, librettos of seventeenth-century operas, the poetry of Giambattista Marino, and the paintings of Titian and his contemporaries. Contributors: Jennifer Williams Brown, Mauro Calcagno, Alan Curtis, Suzanne G. Cusick, Ruth I. DeFord, Dinko Fabris, Beth L. Glixon, Jonathan E. Glixon, Barbara Russano Hanning, Wendy Heller, Robert R. Holzer, Deborah Howard, Giuseppe Mazzotta, Margaret Murata, David Rosand, Susan Parker Shimp, Gary Tomlinson, Alvaro Torrente, Andrew H. Weaver. Rebecca Cypess is Assistant Professor of Music at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Beth L. Glixon is Instructor in Musicology at the University of Kentucky School of Music. Nathan Link is NEH Associate Professor of Music at Centre College.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 414
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 01 Nov 2013

ISBN 10: 1580464297
ISBN 13: 9781580464291

Media Reviews
Almost every essay is rooted in seventeenth-century Venice. Nonetheless, the editors have achieved what amounts to a landmark collection of scholarly commentary on the compositional, spatial, visual, hermeneutic, and socio-political power of musical drama in this period. will appeal to scholars across a wide array of disciplines. Encourages a keen reconsideration of documentary sources and the stratified ways in which they can be read, . . . combining empirical analysis with a keen cultural and humanistic perspective. [Cusick's chapter] engages the reader in an old musicological topic made fresh by means of a compelling methodological framework. MUSIC & LETTERS The excellent scholarship, brilliant insights, and fresh and sometimes unconventional thinking in this impressive collection offer a significant contribution to the study of the relationship of music and verbal text in seventeenth-century Italy. Representing modern approaches to questions that in some cases are more than a century old, these essays reflect a harmonious variety of methods, points of view, and interests. --Hendrik Schulze, University of North Texas