Monteverdi and the Marvellous
Poetry, Sound, and Representation
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- Author: Roseen Giles, Duke University, North Carolina
- Date Published: September 2023
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009355353
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The marvellous, a key concept in literary debates at the turn of the seventeenth century, involved sensory and perspectival transformation, a rhetoric built on the unexpected, contradictory, and thought-provoking. The composer Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) created a new practice in which the expressive materials of music and poetry were placed in concert. This innovative new study of Monteverdi's literary personality integrates musical and poetic analysis to create an approach to text-music relations that addresses scholars of both literature and music. It illuminates how experiments in language and perception at the turn of the seventeenth century were influenced and informed by the work of musicians of that era. Giles provides a new perspective on the music and poetry of Monteverdi's madrigals through the poetics of the marvellous. In his madrigals, Monteverdi created a reciprocity between poetry and music which encouraged audiences to contemplate their interactions, and, consequently, to listen differently.
Read more- Explores how musical settings affect the way poetry is heard, understood, and felt by listeners, historically and today
- Integrates literary and musical analysis to shed new light on Monteverdi's highly original and distinctive approach to interpreting poetry through music
- Reveals how composers and performers at the turn of the seventeenth century not only responded to, but themselves influenced, contemporary experiments in language
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- Date Published: September 2023
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009355353
- length: 320 pages
- dimensions: 251 x 177 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.68kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction: Monteverdi's Modes of Representation
1. The sound of the marvellous
2. Marino And the rime boscherecce
3. Monteverdi's contradictory kisses
4. Il bacio mordace: of kissing and biting
5. Tasso and the music of epic
6. Monteverdi's earliest laments.
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