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University of California Press
- From Madrigal to Opera: Monteverdi's Staging of the Self
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
This pathbreaking study links two traditionally separate genres as their stars crossed to explore the emergence of multiple selves in early modern Italian culture and society. Mauro Calcagno focuses on the works of Claudio Monteverdi, a master of both genres, to investigate how they reflect changing ideas about performance and role-playing by singers. Calcagno traces the roots of dialogic subjectivity to Petrarch’s love poetry arguing that Petrarchism exerted a powerful influence not only on late Renaissance literature and art, but also on music. Covering more than a century of music and cultural history, the book demonstrates that the birth of opera relied on an important feature of the madrigalian tradition: the role of the composer as a narrative agent enabling performers to become characters and hold a specific point of view.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 1-7
- List of Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-8
- Part One. La Musica and Orfeo
- pp. 9-14
- 1. Text, Context, Performance
- pp. 15-31
- 2. Liminality, Deixis, Subjectivity
- pp. 32-56
- 3. Performing the Dialogic Self
- pp. 57-70
- Part Two. Constructing the Narrator
- Part Three. Staging the Self
- 6. Monteverdi, Narrator
- pp. 191-237
- 7. The Possibility of Opera
- pp. 238-262
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520951525
Related ISBN(s)
9780520267688
MARC Record
OCLC
782879943
Pages
334
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No