مونته‌وردی و پایان رنسانس

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. Library Journal Working at a time of great conflict between the old scholastic and the new humanist traditions, Monteverdi was subject to influences not only musical but cultural, as represented by changing poetic and ideological thought (especially of the divergent Petrachan and Marinist schools). Tomlinson shows how these influences contributed to the composer's musical and philosophical development. Books on Monteverdi abound, but none from this vantage point. While scholarly, the work is fluent, attractive, and intelligible in style and contains both useful footnotes and an extensive bibliography. Illuminated capitals at the start of each chapter add to the pleasure of handling this beautifully presented book. Recommended for music libraries. Philippa Kiraly, Cleveland, Ohio This is a study of the secular music of Claudio Monteverdi, the foremost Italian composer of the late Renaissance. Gary Tomlinson bases his narrative on the works themselves, all written between 1584 and 1642. ITALIAN CULTURE of the late sixteenth century offers a picture of stark philosophical contrasts and intellectual eclecticism.