Music And Culture In Italy From The Middle Ages To The Baroque: A Collection Of Essays (studies In The History Of Music)

Frontmatter 1 Musica de sono humano and the Musical Poetic of Guido of Arezzo (page 1) 2 Dante Musicus: Gothicism, Scholasticism, and Music (page 13) 3 Ars Nova and Stil Novo (page 26) 4 Polyphonic Music for a Text Attributed to Frederick II (page 39) 5 New Glimpses of an Unwritten Tradition (page 51) 6 The Oral and Written Traditions of Music (page 72) 7 Music and Cultural Tendencies in Fifteenth-Century Italy (page 80) 8 Church Polyphony Apropos of a New Fragment at Foligno (page 113) 9 Zacara da Teramo (page 126) 10 Ricercare and Variations on O Rosa Bella (page 145) 11 Novelty and Renewal in Italy: 1300-1600 (page 159) 12 Willaert and the Canzone Villanesca (page 175) 13 Notes on Marenzio and Tasso (page 198) 14 The Orchestra and Stage in Renaissance Intermedi and Early Opera (page 210) 15 Temperaments and Tendencies in the Florentine Camerata (page 217) 16 Monteverdi and the Problems of Opera (page 235) 17 Theater, Sets, and Music in Monteverdi's Operas (page 254) 18 Monteverdi's Poetic Choices (page 271) 19 Early Venetian Libretti at Los Angeles (page 317) 20 The Lame Horse and the Coachman: News of the Operatic Parnassus in 1642 (page 325) 21 Falsirena and the Earliest Cavatina (page 335) 22 Commedia dell'Arte and Opera (page 343) Notes (page 363) Index (page 471) The eminent Italian musicologist here analyzes major developments in music during the golden era from Dante to the Italian Baroque