The 17 articles in this volume have been selected by Richard Wistreich to exemplify the best scholarship in English and because each, in retrospect, turns out to have been a ground-breaking contribution to one or more significant strands in Monteverdi studies. Welcome to an exploration of electronic music, in many places and many guises.In societies tracking technological developments, the role of electricity in musichas had a great impact on musical production and consumption, a musical influ-ence as worldwide as the network of telecommunications. During recent years, as his arrestingly attractive music has been brought back to life in performance, so too have some of the most outstanding musicologists focussed intensely on Monteverdi as they worked through the 'big' questions in the historiography and hermeneutics of early Baroque music, including musical representation of language compositional theory social, institutional, cultural and gender history performance practices and more. Download Monteverdi Book in PDF, Epub and KindleĬlaudio Monteverdi is now recognized as the towering figure of a critical transitional moment of Western music history: relentless innovator in every genre within chamber, church and theatre music self-proclaimed leader of a 'new dispensation' between words and their musical expression perhaps even 'Creator of Modern Music'.
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