Modal Subjectivities
Self-Fashioning in the Italian Madrigal
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2004
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-23493-2 (ISBN)
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-23493-2 (ISBN)
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In this boldly innovative book, renowned musicologist Susan McClary presents an illuminating cultural interpretation of the Italian madrigal, one of the most influential repertories of the Renaissance. A genre that sought to produce simulations in sound of complex interiorities, the madrigal introduced into music a vast range of new signifying practices: musical representations of emotions, desire, gender stereotypes, reason, madness, tensions between mind and body, and much more. In doing so, it not only greatly expanded the expressive agendas of European music but also recorded certain assumptions of the time concerning selfhood, making it an invaluable resource for understanding the history of Western subjectivity. Modal Subjectivities covers the span of the sixteenth-century polyphonic madrigal, from its early manifestations in Philippe Verdelot's settings of Machiavelli in the 1520s through the tortured chromatic experiments of Carlo Gesualdo. Although McClary takes the lyrics into account in shaping her readings, she focuses particularly on the details of the music itself - the principal site of the genre's self-fashionings.
In order to work effectively with musical meanings in this pretonal repertory, she also develops an analytical method that allows her to unravel the sophisticated allegorical structures characteristic of the madrigal. This pathbreaking book demonstrates how we might glean insights into a culture on the basis of its nonverbal artistic enterprises.
In order to work effectively with musical meanings in this pretonal repertory, she also develops an analytical method that allows her to unravel the sophisticated allegorical structures characteristic of the madrigal. This pathbreaking book demonstrates how we might glean insights into a culture on the basis of its nonverbal artistic enterprises.
Susan McClary is Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality (2002), Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form (California, 2000), and Georges Bizet: Carmen (1992).
List of Examples Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: The Cultural Work of the Madrigal 2 Night and Deceit: Verdelot's Machiavelli 3 The Desiring Subject, or Subject to Desire: Arcadelt 4 Radical Inwardness: Willaert's Musica nova 5 The Prisonhouse of Mode: Cipriano de Rore 6 The Coney Island of the Madrigal: Wert and Marenzio 7 The Luxury of Solipsism: Gesualdo 8 The Mirtillo/Amarilli Controversy: Monteverdi 9 I modi Appendix: Examples Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 13.12.2004 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 75 music examples |
| Verlagsort | Berkerley |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 680 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte |
| Schlagworte | Italien, Geschichte; Geistes-/Kultur-Geschichte • Madrigal |
| ISBN-10 | 0-520-23493-6 / 0520234936 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-23493-2 / 9780520234932 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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