Music and Theatre from Poliziano to Montiverdi - Brossura

Pirrotta, Nino

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521090075 ISBN 13: 9780521090070

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Riassunto

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.

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Contenuti:

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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521090075
• ISBN 13: 9780521090070
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 432