Monteverdi and the Marvellous
Poetry, Sound, and Representation
Seiten
2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-35535-3 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-35535-3 (ISBN)
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.
The marvellous, a key concept in literary debates at the turn of the seventeenth century, involved sensory and perspectival transformation, a rhetoric built on the unexpected, contradictory, and thought-provoking. The composer Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) created a new practice in which the expressive materials of music and poetry were placed in concert. This innovative new study of Monteverdi's literary personality integrates musical and poetic analysis to create an approach to text-music relations that addresses scholars of both literature and music. It illuminates how experiments in language and perception at the turn of the seventeenth century were influenced and informed by the work of musicians of that era. Giles provides a new perspective on the music and poetry of Monteverdi's madrigals through the poetics of the marvellous. In his madrigals, Monteverdi created a reciprocity between poetry and music which encouraged audiences to contemplate their interactions, and, consequently, to listen differently.
The marvellous, a key concept in literary debates at the turn of the seventeenth century, involved sensory and perspectival transformation, a rhetoric built on the unexpected, contradictory, and thought-provoking. The composer Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) created a new practice in which the expressive materials of music and poetry were placed in concert. This innovative new study of Monteverdi's literary personality integrates musical and poetic analysis to create an approach to text-music relations that addresses scholars of both literature and music. It illuminates how experiments in language and perception at the turn of the seventeenth century were influenced and informed by the work of musicians of that era. Giles provides a new perspective on the music and poetry of Monteverdi's madrigals through the poetics of the marvellous. In his madrigals, Monteverdi created a reciprocity between poetry and music which encouraged audiences to contemplate their interactions, and, consequently, to listen differently.
Roseen Giles is Assistant Professor of Music at Duke University. She is a specialist in the music of Claudio Monteverdi, and the author of numerous essays on early modern musical culture and the histories of music and literature.
Introduction: Monteverdi's Modes of Representation; 1. The sound of the marvellous; 2. Marino And the rime boscherecce; 3. Monteverdi's contradictory kisses; 4. Il bacio mordace: of kissing and biting; 5. Tasso and the music of epic; 6. Monteverdi's earliest laments.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.09.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Music in Context |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 177 x 251 mm |
| Gewicht | 680 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-35535-X / 100935535X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-35535-3 / 9781009355353 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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Buch | Hardcover (2023)
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