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Modal Subjectivities : Self-Fashioning in the Italian Madrigal by Susan McClary; American Council of Learned Societies is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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"This revelatory book distills thirty years of reflection on the sixteenth-century madrigal with an inimitable mixture of empathy, vivacity, conceptual boldness, and downright wisdom. Susan McClary renovates our understanding of the genre in the most fundamental terms and in the process rewrites a key chapter in the history of early modern culture. McClary gives us a different sixteenth-century Europe than the one we thought we knew. By asking what we can learn about the era from its music, and

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Author

Susan McClary; American Council of Learned Societies

Publisher

Berkeley: University of California Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520314252

Category

history

Subjects

Music, History, Voice

Updated

2026-03-25