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005    20141212093322.0
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035    (Sirsi) o26774707
035    (OCoLC)26774707
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049    EREM
090    ML290.2 |b.C23 1992
092    780.945 |bC325, M987, 1992
100 1  Carter, Tim, |d1954- |=^A669688
245 10 Music in late Renaissance & early Baroque Italy / |cTim Carter.
260    Portland, Ore : |bAmadeus Press, |c1992.
300    288 pages : |bmusic ; |c24 cm
336    text |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |2rdamedia
338    volume |2rdacarrier
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-281) and index.
505 00  |tRenaissance, Mannerism, Baroque? -- |tThe city-states of Italy -- |tFrom composer to consumer -- |tSome questions of theory -- |tSacred polyphony in the mid sixteenth century -- |tThe early madrigal -- |tSacred polyphony in late sixteenth-century Rome and Venice -- |tThe late sixteenth-century madrigal -- |tMusic in the theatre -- |tInstrumental music -- |tThe Florentine 'New Music' -- |tEarly opera -- |tSacred music in the early seventeenth century -- |tFrom madrigal to cantata.
520    This book proposes new ways of exploring vocal and instrumental music in northern and central Italy in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The text focuses on the consolidation of the 'High Renaissance' style of Josquin Desprez and his contemporaries, and the subsequent transformation of this style under the pressure of new aesthetic and functional demands made upon music, and of shifting social, political and cultural circumstances as Italy moved into the period of the Counter-Reformation, and the arts moved through Mannerism into the Baroque. The effects of these changing contexts upon such masters as Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Claudio Monteverdi are fully documented here, but this is less a 'great composer' book than a study of secular, sacred and theatrical styles and genres, both within the musical market-place and in relation to music's sister arts. The author also attempts to view music, and indeed all the arts, as essentially political phenomena, conditioned by (but also conditioning) social and cultural constraints. There are copious music examples and an extensive bibliography; considerable space is also devoted to extracts from contemporary documents in translation to allow the reader first-hand experience of one of the most exciting periods in music history.
650  0 Music |zItaly |y16th century |xHistory and criticism. |=^A1114183
650  0 Music |zItaly |y17th century |xHistory and criticism. |=^A1065613
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