Monteverdi's Unruly Women The Power of Song in Early Modern Italy |
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| Author:
| Gordon, Bonnie |
| Series title: | New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-12026-5 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2009 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $45.99 |
Book Description:
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Bonnie Gordon uses the music of Monteverdi, written at the turn of the seventeenth century, to illuminate understandings of music, science and the female body at that cultural moment. Her findings are based on singing treatises, renaissance medical writings and seventeenth-century acoustics.
Bonnie Gordon uses the music of Monteverdi, written at the turn of the seventeenth century, to illuminate understandings of music, science and the female body at that cultural moment. Her findings are based on singing treatises, renaissance medical writings and seventeenth-century acoustics.