Tim Carter

Monteverdi's Voices (eBook, ePUB)

A Poetics of the Madrigal

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Monteverdi's Voices provides a comprehensive account of the musical madrigals of Claudio Monteverdi. Author Tim Carter sheds light on how these wonderfully witty works played a key role in music-historical development, offering offer key insights into the cultural, social, and intellectual life of Europe on the cusp of modernity, and shows why they continue to be cornerstones of the repertory for performers of early music.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197759219
• Artikelnr.: 72268677

Autorenporträt

Tim Carter served at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as David G. Frey Distinguished Professor of Music from 2001 until his retirement in 2021, having previously taught at the Universities of Leicester and Lancaster, and Royal Holloway and Bedford New College (University of London). His works include Staging "Euridice": Theatre, Sets, and Music in Late Renaissance Florence (co-authored with Francesca Fantappiè); Understanding Opera; Orpheus in the Marketplace (co-authored with Richard A. Goldthwaite); Monteverdi's Musical Theatre; and Music, Patronage and Printing in Late Renaissance Florence. Among his other publications are books on Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro and on Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!. He has held fellowships at the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti (Florence), the Newberry Library (Chicago), and the National Humanities Center. He is an honorary member of the American Musicological Society, the Royal Musical Association, and the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music.

Inhaltsangabe

List of music examples, figures, and tables
Acknowledgments
Editorial (etc.) principles
1 Introduction
2 The apprentice composer
3 The madrigal "book"
4 Monteverdi's performers
5 Poetic voices
6 Songbirds
7 Monteverdi's "mistakes"
8 Musical (im)pertinence
9 The "representative" style
10 Playing with time
Bibliography
Index of Monteverdi's Madrigals
General Index