Research Catalog

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Description

1. ix, 445 p. : ill., music; 26 cm.

Series statement

1. New perspectives in music history and criticism

Uniform title

1. New perspectives in music history and criticism.

Subject

1. Music > Italy > 16th century > History and criticism
2. Arkadia (Greece) > History
3. Music and mythology

Contents

1. Music in Arcadia : an unsettled tradition -- The idiosyncrasies of chronology -- The return of the shepherd -- Musical remedies -- On the cusp between language and music -- Musical eclipses : theater -- The boundaries of the genre -- Singing like shepherds, singing like peasants -- Ruzante's song and the rustic picturesque -- Re-founding pastoral theater -- The (female) performance of high culture : the madrigal -- A pastoral society -- The dark side of Arcadia -- Marenzio's utopia of the senses -- Lost in Arcadia -- Epilogue : Pastoral, opera and the impossibility of tragedy.

Call number

1. JMF 09-264

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [400]-436) and index.

Author

1. Gerbino, Giuseppe.

Title

1. Music and the myth of Arcadia in Renaissance Italy / Giuseppe Gerbino.

Imprint

1. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Series

1. New perspectives in music history and criticism
2. New perspectives in music history and criticism.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [400]-436) and index.

Connect to:

1. Contributor biographical information
2. Publisher description
3. Table of contents only

LCCN

1. 2008049142

ISBN

1. 9780521899567
2. 0521899567

Research call number

1. JMF 09-264