Music and Theatre from Poliziano to Monteverdi

by Nino Pirrotta, Elena Povoledo, Karen Eales (Translator)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521090070
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	11/13/2008
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Music
Pages:	436
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.10(d)

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.