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Monteverdi's Musical Theatre
Language: en
Pages: 348
Authors: Lecturer in Music Royal Holloway and Bedford New College Tim Carter
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) is well known as the composer of the earliest operas still performed today. His Orfeo, Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria, and L'incor
Operas of Monteverdi
Language: en
Pages: 211
Authors: Claudio Monteverdi
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-01 - Publisher: Alma Books

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Monteverdi's 1607 version of the legend of Orpheus is arguably the first masterpiece of opera. Composed for the court of Mantua, where Monteverdi was employed,
Opera's First Master
Language: en
Pages: 364
Authors: Mark Ringer
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

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"Includes full-length Harmonia Mundi CD"--Cover, p. 1.
Music and Theatre from Poliziano to Monteverdi
Language: en
Pages: 436
Authors: Nino Pirrotta
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 1982-02-04 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book describes the many ways in which music was used in Italian theatrical performances between the late fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In part
Monteverdi's Voices
Language: en
Pages: 265
Authors: Tim Carter
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Monteverdi's Voices provides a comprehensive account of the musical madrigals of Claudio Monteverdi. Author Tim Carter sheds light on how these wonderfully witt