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This collection of reprinted essays takes the trends of the author's Music, Patronage and Printing in Late Renaissance Florence (also in the 'Variorum' series) in a somewhat different direction. If the focus there was primarily on archival documents, here it is on the actual music. The starting-point is similar - the rise of the 'new music' for solo voice and basso continuo in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Florence, in particular the songs of Giulio Caccini. But it moves on to broader aesthetic issues crystallized in contemporary theoretical debate and musical practice - not least the rise of aria-based styles - and concludes with a series of studies of Claudio Monteverdi's works for the theatre, including the operas Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (1640) and the ever-problematic L'incoronazione di Poppea (1643). Cover 1 Series 2 Half Title 3 Title 5 Copyright 6 Contents 7 Introduction 9 Acknowledgments 13 I Music Publishing in Italy, c. 1580-c. 1625: Some Preliminary Observations 15 II On the Composition and Performance of Caccini’s Le nuove musiche (1602) 34 III Caccini’s Amarilli, mia bella: Some Questions (and a Few Answers) 44 IV New Songs for Old? Guarini and

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Author

Tim Carter

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780860788232

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Music, Arts