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From madrigal to opera : Monteverdi's staging of the self / Mauro Calcagno.

Author/creator Calcagno, Mauro P.
Other author/creatorAmerican Council of Learned Societies.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoBerkeley, California : University of California Press,
Descriptionxii, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Subject(s)
Contents Part One -- La musica and Orfeo 1. Text, context, performance ; 2. Liminality, deixis, subjectivity ; 3. Performing the dialogic self -- Part Two -- Constructing the narrator 4. From Petrarch to Petrarchism : a rhetoric of voice and address ; 5. In search of voice : musical Petrarchism in the sixteenth-century madrigal -- Part Three -- Staging the self 6. Monteverdi, narrator ; 7. The possibility of opera.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 277-317) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011046515
ISBN9780520267688 (cloth : acid-free paper)