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Monteverdi and the Marvellous
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Pages: 299
Authors: Roseen Giles
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-09-28 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Integrating musical and poetic analysis, this book sheds new light on the experience of listening to Monteverdi's path-breaking madrigals. The music of this piv
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Language: en
Pages: 265
Authors: Tim Carter
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-05-24 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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"Ah, alas!" The "faithful shepherd" Mirtillo's woeful sigh of unrequited love, delivered with outrageous musical dissonances, has rung through the ages since th
Music and Power at the Court of Louis XIII
Language: en
Pages: 339
Authors: Peter Bennett
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-05-27 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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A study of the strategies by which sacred music and liturgy was used to legitimate Louis XIII's power.
The Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi
Language: en
Pages: 480
Authors: John Whenham
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-12-13 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Claudio Monteverdi is one of the most important figures of 'early' music, a composer whose music speaks powerfully and directly to modern audiences. This book,
Monteverdi
Language: en
Pages: 370
Authors: Paolo Fabbri
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-06-23 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Paolo Fabbri's Monteverdi, first published in Italian, is the leading study of the greatest composer of late Renaissance and early Baroque Italy, rightly called