Monteverdi and the End of the Renaissance |
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| Author:
| Tomlinson, Gary |
| ISBN: | 978-0-520-91010-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 1990 |
| Publisher: | University of California Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $33.95USD $50.93 |
Book Description:
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Combining a close study of Monteverdi's secular works with recent research on late Renaissance history, Gary Tomlinson places the composer's creative career in its broad cultural context and illuminates the state of Italian music, poetry, and ideology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Combining a close study of Monteverdi's secular works with recent research on late Renaissance history, Gary Tomlinson places the composer's creative career in its broad cultural context and illuminates the state of Italian music, poetry, and ideology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.