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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 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
A History of Baroque Music
Language: en
Pages: 732
Authors: George J. Buelow
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-11-23 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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"A History of Baroque Music is a detailed treatment of the music of the Baroque era, with particular focus on the seventeenth century. The author's approach is
Early Music History: Volume 13
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Iain Fenlon
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-02-23 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Concerned with the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the seventeenth century. Includes articles on French 16th-century music, theatre and poetry
Secular Renaissance Music
Language: en
Pages: 689
Authors: Sean Gallagher
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-05 - Publisher: Routledge

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Secular music of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries encompasses an extraordinarily wide range of works and practices: courtly love songs, music for civic fes