The Neapolitan poet Giambattista Marino made a major impact on the history of Italian music in the early seventeenth century. His short, epigram-like madrigals in particular challenged composers to find analogies to the many kinds of rhetorical surprises they contain. Marino\u27s insistence on structural features such as parallelisms and contrasts found a counterpart in the emphasis many composers setting his poetry placed on rhythmic and motivic relationships within compositions. The first chapter deals with the literary concepts of concetto and meraviglia, central to an understanding of Marino\u27s innovations. The second discusses some of the ways in which poetry and the polyphonic madrigal of the late sixteenth century foreshadowed Mari...
Battista Guarini's Il pastor fido (1590) holds a prominent place in the history of the Italian madri...
Scholars of secular Trecento music are often required to confront issues concerning the interpretati...
This study develops three themes. It sketches a cultural history of Rome from approximately 1620 to ...
The Neapolitan poet Giambattista Marino made a major impact on the history of Italian music in the e...
The early decades of the seventeenth century saw an important aesthetic shift in Italian secular mus...
Luca Marenzio has long been acknowledged as one of the greatest masters of the Italian madrigal, yet...
This thesis examines how the mid sixteenth century madrigal phenomenon was perceived and interpreted...
The Musica nova of Adrian Willaert, a large collection of madrigals and motets composed around 1540 ...
Scholarship on Italian monody has asserted that the solo madrigal tradition was almost non-existent ...
There is general agreement in the scholarly literature that Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) was one o...
Gesualdo’s compositional writing evolves throughout his six books of madrigals. While the first two ...
The Renaissance theorist Gioseffo Zarlino and his theoretical treatise Le istitutioni harmoniche wer...
This thesis compares eighteen different musical settings of the Petrarch sonnet "Tutto'l di piango; ...
Among Giovanni Maria Nanino’s compositions, the madrigal Morir non può 'l'mio core, published in hi...
In the summer of 1602, Marco da Gagliano's Primo libra de madrigali a cinque vociwas printed in Veni...
Battista Guarini's Il pastor fido (1590) holds a prominent place in the history of the Italian madri...
Scholars of secular Trecento music are often required to confront issues concerning the interpretati...
This study develops three themes. It sketches a cultural history of Rome from approximately 1620 to ...
The Neapolitan poet Giambattista Marino made a major impact on the history of Italian music in the e...
The early decades of the seventeenth century saw an important aesthetic shift in Italian secular mus...
Luca Marenzio has long been acknowledged as one of the greatest masters of the Italian madrigal, yet...
This thesis examines how the mid sixteenth century madrigal phenomenon was perceived and interpreted...
The Musica nova of Adrian Willaert, a large collection of madrigals and motets composed around 1540 ...
Scholarship on Italian monody has asserted that the solo madrigal tradition was almost non-existent ...
There is general agreement in the scholarly literature that Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) was one o...
Gesualdo’s compositional writing evolves throughout his six books of madrigals. While the first two ...
The Renaissance theorist Gioseffo Zarlino and his theoretical treatise Le istitutioni harmoniche wer...
This thesis compares eighteen different musical settings of the Petrarch sonnet "Tutto'l di piango; ...
Among Giovanni Maria Nanino’s compositions, the madrigal Morir non può 'l'mio core, published in hi...
In the summer of 1602, Marco da Gagliano's Primo libra de madrigali a cinque vociwas printed in Veni...
Battista Guarini's Il pastor fido (1590) holds a prominent place in the history of the Italian madri...
Scholars of secular Trecento music are often required to confront issues concerning the interpretati...
This study develops three themes. It sketches a cultural history of Rome from approximately 1620 to ...