Music and Theatre from Poliziano to Monteverdi
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Part of Cambridge Studies in Music
- Authors:
- Nino Pirrotta
- Elena Povoledo
- Translator: Karen Eales
- Date Published: November 2008
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521090070
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This book describes the many ways in which music was used in Italian theatrical performances between the late fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In particular, it concentrates on Polizano's Orfeo, Machiavelli's commedies, the Florentine intermedi and early operas, and the first operas in Venice.
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- Date Published: November 2008
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521090070
- length: 436 pages
- dimensions: 244 x 170 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.69kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Orpheus, singer of strambotti
2. Classical theatre, intermedi and frottola music
3. Realistic use of music in comedy
4. Temporal perspective and music
5. 'The wondrous show, alas, of the intermedi!'
6. Early opera and aria
7. From Poliziano's Orfeo to the Orphei tragoedia
8. The citta ferrarese
9. Regular comedy and the perspective set
10. 'Visible' intermedi and movable sets.
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