Essays on Italian poetry and music in the Renaissance, 1350-1600
1986, 1st edition. Berkeley : University of California Press. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #393094
ISBN: 0520053974
Series: The Ernest Bloch Lectures. Physical description: xvii, 245 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations, music ; 25 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: The trecento -- The puzzle of the quattrocento -- The early madrigal : humanistic theory in practical guise -- Improvvisatori and their relationship to sixteenth-century music -- Italian music in the age of the Counter-reformation -- The rise of the baroque aesthetic -- Appendix : musical examples. Subjects: To 1599; Vocal music Italy 500-1400; Vocal music Italy 15th century; Vocal music Italy 16th century; Italian poetry To 1400; Italian poetry 15th century; Italian poetry 16th century; Arts, Renaissance Italy.
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