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Music and Theatre from Poliziano to Monteverdi

Music and Theatre from Poliziano to Monteverdi

Music and Theatre from Poliziano to Monteverdi

Nino Pirrotta
Elena Povoledo
Karen Eales
November 2008
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Paperback
9780521090070
$42.00
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Paperback

    This book describes the many ways in which music was used in Italian theatrical performances between the late fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In particular, it concentrates on Polizano's Orfeo, Machiavelli's commedies, the Florentine intermedi and early operas, and the first operas in Venice.

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    November 2008
    Paperback
    9780521090070
    436 pages
    244 × 170 × 23 mm
    0.69kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Orpheus, singer of strambotti
    • 2. Classical theatre, intermedi and frottola music
    • 3. Realistic use of music in comedy
    • 4. Temporal perspective and music
    • 5. 'The wondrous show, alas, of the intermedi!'
    • 6. Early opera and aria
    • 7. From Poliziano's Orfeo to the Orphei tragoedia
    • 8. The citta ferrarese
    • 9. Regular comedy and the perspective set
    • 10. 'Visible' intermedi and movable sets.
      Authors
    • Nino Pirrotta
    • Elena Povoledo
    • Translator
    • Karen Eales