Author: Ermanno Pradella
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291914641
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Reso musicalmente celebre da Claudio Monteverdi nel 1638, questo episodio della Gerusalemme Liberata mantiene, a distanza di quasi quattro secoli, un grande fascino e attualità, nella sua evidenza drammatico- teatrale. Il tema del testo è impostato su Amore, Duello in una fatale situazione umana, Morte, come soluzione finale, sia pure sublimata da una mistica pace. Nel raffronto inevitabile con il Combattimento di Monteverdi il testo, in questa versione, è assolutamente identico a quello originale del Tasso e quasi simile a quello musicato da Monteverdi, con l'aggiunta, però, rispetto a questo, di due stanze di otto versi ciascuna, poste per una più chiara fedeltà al testo del Tasso. Le voci: due tenori e soprano, come in Monteverdi, gli strumenti sono quasi gli stessi. L'espressione generale si rapporta all'ideale classico, che è poi quello del testo.
Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
Author: Ermanno Pradella
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291914641
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Reso musicalmente celebre da Claudio Monteverdi nel 1638, questo episodio della Gerusalemme Liberata mantiene, a distanza di quasi quattro secoli, un grande fascino e attualità, nella sua evidenza drammatico- teatrale. Il tema del testo è impostato su Amore, Duello in una fatale situazione umana, Morte, come soluzione finale, sia pure sublimata da una mistica pace. Nel raffronto inevitabile con il Combattimento di Monteverdi il testo, in questa versione, è assolutamente identico a quello originale del Tasso e quasi simile a quello musicato da Monteverdi, con l'aggiunta, però, rispetto a questo, di due stanze di otto versi ciascuna, poste per una più chiara fedeltà al testo del Tasso. Le voci: due tenori e soprano, come in Monteverdi, gli strumenti sono quasi gli stessi. L'espressione generale si rapporta all'ideale classico, che è poi quello del testo.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291914641
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Reso musicalmente celebre da Claudio Monteverdi nel 1638, questo episodio della Gerusalemme Liberata mantiene, a distanza di quasi quattro secoli, un grande fascino e attualità, nella sua evidenza drammatico- teatrale. Il tema del testo è impostato su Amore, Duello in una fatale situazione umana, Morte, come soluzione finale, sia pure sublimata da una mistica pace. Nel raffronto inevitabile con il Combattimento di Monteverdi il testo, in questa versione, è assolutamente identico a quello originale del Tasso e quasi simile a quello musicato da Monteverdi, con l'aggiunta, però, rispetto a questo, di due stanze di otto versi ciascuna, poste per una più chiara fedeltà al testo del Tasso. Le voci: due tenori e soprano, come in Monteverdi, gli strumenti sono quasi gli stessi. L'espressione generale si rapporta all'ideale classico, che è poi quello del testo.
Il Combattimento Di Tancredi E Clorinda
Author: Lenore Kitts
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 102
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The Sounds of War: Dissonance in Monteverdi's Combattimento Di Tancredi E Clorinda (part 1)
Author: Mary Kathleen Estrada
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Claudio Monteverdi
Author: Susan Lewis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135042926
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Claudio Monteverdi: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography that navigates the vast scholarly resources on the composer with the most updated compilation since 1989. Claudio Monteverdi transformed and mastered the principal genres of his day and his works influenced generations of musicians and other artists. He initiated one of the most important aesthetic debates of the era by proposing a new relationship between poetry and harmony. In addition to scholarship by musicologists and music theorists, Monteverdi’s music has attracted attention from literary scholars, cultural historians, and critical theorists. Research into Monteverdi and Renaissance and early baroque studies has expanded greatly, with the field becoming more complex as scholars address such issues as gender theory, feminist criticism, cultural theory, new criticism, new historicism, and artistic and popular cultures. The guide serves both as a foundational starting point and as a gateway for future inquiry in such fields as court culture, opera, patronage, and Italian poetry.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135042926
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Claudio Monteverdi: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography that navigates the vast scholarly resources on the composer with the most updated compilation since 1989. Claudio Monteverdi transformed and mastered the principal genres of his day and his works influenced generations of musicians and other artists. He initiated one of the most important aesthetic debates of the era by proposing a new relationship between poetry and harmony. In addition to scholarship by musicologists and music theorists, Monteverdi’s music has attracted attention from literary scholars, cultural historians, and critical theorists. Research into Monteverdi and Renaissance and early baroque studies has expanded greatly, with the field becoming more complex as scholars address such issues as gender theory, feminist criticism, cultural theory, new criticism, new historicism, and artistic and popular cultures. The guide serves both as a foundational starting point and as a gateway for future inquiry in such fields as court culture, opera, patronage, and Italian poetry.
Divining the Oracle
Author: Massimo Ossi
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226638839
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Claudio Monteverdi's historical position in music has been compared to that of Shakespeare in literature: almost exact contemporaries, each worked from traditional beginnings to transform nearly every genre he attempted. In this book, Massimo Ossi delves into the most significant aspect of Monteverdi's career: the development, during the first years of the seventeenth century, of a new compositional style he called the seconda prattica or "second manner." Challenged in print for the unconventional aspects of his music, Monteverdi found himself at the center of a debate between defenders of Renaissance principles and the newest musical currents of the time. The principles of the seconda prattica, Ossi argues in this sophisticated analysis of Monteverdi's writings, music, and approaches to text-setting, were in fact much more significant to the course of Monteverdi's career than previously thought by modern scholars-not only did Monteverdi continue to pursue their aesthetic and theoretical implications for the rest of his life, but they also affected his dramatic compositions as well as his chamber vocal music and sacred works. Ossi "divines the oracle" of Monteverdi's ambiguous theoretical concepts in a clear way and in terms of pure music; his book will enhance our understanding of Monteverdi as one of the most significant figures in western music history.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226638839
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Claudio Monteverdi's historical position in music has been compared to that of Shakespeare in literature: almost exact contemporaries, each worked from traditional beginnings to transform nearly every genre he attempted. In this book, Massimo Ossi delves into the most significant aspect of Monteverdi's career: the development, during the first years of the seventeenth century, of a new compositional style he called the seconda prattica or "second manner." Challenged in print for the unconventional aspects of his music, Monteverdi found himself at the center of a debate between defenders of Renaissance principles and the newest musical currents of the time. The principles of the seconda prattica, Ossi argues in this sophisticated analysis of Monteverdi's writings, music, and approaches to text-setting, were in fact much more significant to the course of Monteverdi's career than previously thought by modern scholars-not only did Monteverdi continue to pursue their aesthetic and theoretical implications for the rest of his life, but they also affected his dramatic compositions as well as his chamber vocal music and sacred works. Ossi "divines the oracle" of Monteverdi's ambiguous theoretical concepts in a clear way and in terms of pure music; his book will enhance our understanding of Monteverdi as one of the most significant figures in western music history.
The Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi
Author: John Whenham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139828223
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Claudio Monteverdi is one of the most important figures of 'early' music, a composer whose music speaks powerfully and directly to modern audiences. This book, first published in 2007, provides an authoritative treatment of Monteverdi and his music, complementing Paolo Fabbri's standard biography of the composer. Written by leading specialists in the field, it is aimed at students, performers and music-lovers in general and adds significantly to our understanding of Monteverdi's music, his life, and the contexts in which he worked. Chapters offering overviews of his output of sacred, secular and dramatic music are complemented by 'intermedi', in which contributors examine individual works, or sections of works in detail. The book draws extensively on Monteverdi's letters and includes a select discography/videography and a complete list of Monteverdi's works together with an index of first lines and titles.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139828223
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Claudio Monteverdi is one of the most important figures of 'early' music, a composer whose music speaks powerfully and directly to modern audiences. This book, first published in 2007, provides an authoritative treatment of Monteverdi and his music, complementing Paolo Fabbri's standard biography of the composer. Written by leading specialists in the field, it is aimed at students, performers and music-lovers in general and adds significantly to our understanding of Monteverdi's music, his life, and the contexts in which he worked. Chapters offering overviews of his output of sacred, secular and dramatic music are complemented by 'intermedi', in which contributors examine individual works, or sections of works in detail. The book draws extensively on Monteverdi's letters and includes a select discography/videography and a complete list of Monteverdi's works together with an index of first lines and titles.
Ancient Rome in Early Opera
Author: Robert Ketterer
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252033787
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The major historians of ancient Rome wrote their works in the firm belief that the exalted history of the Roman Empire provided plentiful lessons about individual behavior, inspiration for great souls, and warnings against evil ambitions, not to mention opportunities for rich comedy. The examples of Rome have often been resurrected for the opera stage to display the exceptional grandeur, glory, and tragedy of Roman figures. In this volume, Robert C. Ketterer tracks the changes as operas’ Roman subjects crossed generations and national boundaries. Following opera from its origins in seventeenth-century Venice to Napoleon’s invasion of Italy, Ketterer shows how Roman history provided composers with all the necessary courage and intrigue, love and honor, and triumph and defeat so vital for the stirring music that makes great opera.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252033787
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The major historians of ancient Rome wrote their works in the firm belief that the exalted history of the Roman Empire provided plentiful lessons about individual behavior, inspiration for great souls, and warnings against evil ambitions, not to mention opportunities for rich comedy. The examples of Rome have often been resurrected for the opera stage to display the exceptional grandeur, glory, and tragedy of Roman figures. In this volume, Robert C. Ketterer tracks the changes as operas’ Roman subjects crossed generations and national boundaries. Following opera from its origins in seventeenth-century Venice to Napoleon’s invasion of Italy, Ketterer shows how Roman history provided composers with all the necessary courage and intrigue, love and honor, and triumph and defeat so vital for the stirring music that makes great opera.
Music Theatre in Britain
Author: Michael Hall
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1783270128
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
The author, a former BBC radio producer, conducted interviews with many leading British composers of the day, and his account provides for a unique insight into this often overlooked genre. Based on Michael Hall's many interviews with leading British composers of the genre, this book looks at the heyday of the British Music Theatre in the 1960s and 70s, a period when the author as a BBC radio producer was actively involved with the contemporary music scene. Music Theatre - a composite of music, singing, dancing and speaking distinct from traditional opera and ballet - has its roots in works by Monteverdi, Schoenberg, Satie, Stravinsky, Weill, Hindemith and Eisler, but flourished anew in the 1960s, in America, Britain and Europe. Hall's book presents an account of the context for the activity of Birtwistle, Goehr and Maxwell Davies; it uncovers details of little-known early works by other major figures such as Cardew and Tavener; and it recognises the highly distinctive contributions of composers whose works are less well known. Music Theatre in Britain also throws new light upon the reaction of British composers to the economic and social upheavals of 'the Sixties', offering a distinct and valuable contribution to our understanding of the relationship of the post-war musical avant-garde to social movementsand ideology. Music Theatre in Britain will be of interest to all those working in the field of late twentieth-century British music, to students of composition, and to composers, performers and producers of Music Theatre. MICHAEL HALL, who died in August 2012, had a long career as a conductor, founder of Royal Northern Sinfonia, BBC producer and broadcaster, university lecturer and writer on music.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1783270128
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
The author, a former BBC radio producer, conducted interviews with many leading British composers of the day, and his account provides for a unique insight into this often overlooked genre. Based on Michael Hall's many interviews with leading British composers of the genre, this book looks at the heyday of the British Music Theatre in the 1960s and 70s, a period when the author as a BBC radio producer was actively involved with the contemporary music scene. Music Theatre - a composite of music, singing, dancing and speaking distinct from traditional opera and ballet - has its roots in works by Monteverdi, Schoenberg, Satie, Stravinsky, Weill, Hindemith and Eisler, but flourished anew in the 1960s, in America, Britain and Europe. Hall's book presents an account of the context for the activity of Birtwistle, Goehr and Maxwell Davies; it uncovers details of little-known early works by other major figures such as Cardew and Tavener; and it recognises the highly distinctive contributions of composers whose works are less well known. Music Theatre in Britain also throws new light upon the reaction of British composers to the economic and social upheavals of 'the Sixties', offering a distinct and valuable contribution to our understanding of the relationship of the post-war musical avant-garde to social movementsand ideology. Music Theatre in Britain will be of interest to all those working in the field of late twentieth-century British music, to students of composition, and to composers, performers and producers of Music Theatre. MICHAEL HALL, who died in August 2012, had a long career as a conductor, founder of Royal Northern Sinfonia, BBC producer and broadcaster, university lecturer and writer on music.
Opera's First Master
Author: Mark Ringer
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781574671100
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
"Includes full-length Harmonia Mundi CD"--Cover, p. 1.
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781574671100
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
"Includes full-length Harmonia Mundi CD"--Cover, p. 1.
Epic and Empire
Author: David Quint
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691222959
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Alexander the Great, according to Plutarch, carried on his campaigns a copy of the Iliad, kept alongside a dagger; on a more pronounced ideological level, ancient Romans looked to the Aeneid as an argument for imperialism. In this major reinterpretation of epic poetry beginning with Virgil, David Quint explores the political context and meanings of key works in Western literature. He divides the history of the genre into two political traditions: the Virgilian epics of conquest and empire that take the victors' side (the Aeneid itself, Camoes's Lusíadas, Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata) and the countervailing epic of the defeated and of republican liberty (Lucan's Pharsalia, Ercilla's Araucana, and d'Aubigné's Les tragiques). These traditions produce opposing ideas of historical narrative: a linear, teleological narrative that belongs to the imperial conquerors, and an episodic and open-ended narrative identified with "romance," the story told of and by the defeated. Quint situates Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained within these rival traditions. He extends his political analysis to the scholarly revival of medieval epic in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and to Sergei Eisenstein's epic film, Alexander Nevsky. Attending both to the topical contexts of individual poems and to the larger historical development of the epic genre, Epic and Empire provides new models for exploring the relationship between ideology and literary form.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691222959
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Alexander the Great, according to Plutarch, carried on his campaigns a copy of the Iliad, kept alongside a dagger; on a more pronounced ideological level, ancient Romans looked to the Aeneid as an argument for imperialism. In this major reinterpretation of epic poetry beginning with Virgil, David Quint explores the political context and meanings of key works in Western literature. He divides the history of the genre into two political traditions: the Virgilian epics of conquest and empire that take the victors' side (the Aeneid itself, Camoes's Lusíadas, Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata) and the countervailing epic of the defeated and of republican liberty (Lucan's Pharsalia, Ercilla's Araucana, and d'Aubigné's Les tragiques). These traditions produce opposing ideas of historical narrative: a linear, teleological narrative that belongs to the imperial conquerors, and an episodic and open-ended narrative identified with "romance," the story told of and by the defeated. Quint situates Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained within these rival traditions. He extends his political analysis to the scholarly revival of medieval epic in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and to Sergei Eisenstein's epic film, Alexander Nevsky. Attending both to the topical contexts of individual poems and to the larger historical development of the epic genre, Epic and Empire provides new models for exploring the relationship between ideology and literary form.