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Part I. Development. Influence of troubadours: music in Dante and Petrarch -- Music in Florence in fourteenth century -- Flemish musicians in Italy: growth of the Renaissance courts -- Music at the court of Urbino -- Music at the court of Ferrara -- Music at the court of Milan -- Music at the court of Mantua -- Music in Florence under the Medici; Music in Padua, Bologna, Naples -- The Renaissance painters and music -- Influence of early Italian poetry on music -- Old notational systems and manuscripts -- Part II. Maturity. Music in Venice, to end of sixteenth century -- Rome: early church music; choirs -- Palestrina; Oratorio; Frescobaldi; the organ ; The opera: Florence; Mantua -- Opera and oratorio in Venice: Monteverdi -- Opera and oratorio in Rome: Carissimi -- The violin: Corelli -- Opera at Naples: Alessandro Scarlatti -- The clavicembalo: Domenico Scarlatti -- The close of a great period ; Verdi and the past -- Part III. Influence. Influence of Italian music in Germany -- Influence of Italian music in France -- Italian opera in England, Spain, Russia. |
