Monteverdi and the Marvellous

Monteverdi and the Marvellous
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 299
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ISBN-10 : 9781009355346
ISBN-13 : 1009355341
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Book Synopsis Monteverdi and the Marvellous by : Roseen Giles

Download or read book Monteverdi and the Marvellous written by Roseen Giles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 pivotal figure reveals how composers and performers at the turn of the seventeenth century not only responded to but themselves influenced experiments in language.


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