Giuseppe Gerbino

Music and the Myth of Arcadia in Renaissance Italy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides insights into the Renaissance fascination with the myth of Arcadia, examining how this was represented in music.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 851g
• ISBN-13: 9781107659223
• ISBN-10: 1107659221
• Artikelnr.: 40788228

Autorenporträt

Giuseppe Gerbino is Associate Professor in the Department of Music, Columbia University, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: music in Arcadia: an unsettled tradition
1. The idiosyncrasies of chronology
2. The return of the shepherd
3. Musical remedies
4. On the cusp between language and music
5. Musical eclipses: theatre
6. The boundaries of the genre
7. Singing like shepherds, singing like peasants
8. Ruzante's song and the rustic picturesque
9. Re-founding pastoral theatre
10. The (female) performance of high culture: the madrigal
11. A pastoral society
12. The dark side of Arcadia
13. Marenzio's utopia of the senses
14. Lost in Arcadia
Epilogue: pastoral, opera and the impossibility of tragedy.