Music and the Myth of Arcadia in Renaissance Italy
Author:   Giuseppe Gerbino (Associate Professor, Columbia University, New York)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Volume:   18
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9781107659223


Pages:   456
Publication Date:   01 May 2014
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Giuseppe Gerbino (Associate Professor, Columbia University, New York)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Volume:   18
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.780kg
ISBN:  

9781107659223


ISBN 10:   1107659221
Pages:   456
Publication Date:   01 May 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction: music in Arcadia: an unsettled tradition; 1. The idiosyncrasies of chronology; 2. The return of the shepherd; 3. Musical remedies; 4. On the cusp between language and music; 5. Musical eclipses: theatre; 6. The boundaries of the genre; 7. Singing like shepherds, singing like peasants; 8. Ruzante's song and the rustic picturesque; 9. Re-founding pastoral theatre; 10. The (female) performance of high culture: the madrigal; 11. A pastoral society; 12. The dark side of Arcadia; 13. Marenzio's utopia of the senses; 14. Lost in Arcadia; Epilogue: pastoral, opera and the impossibility of tragedy.

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Giuseppe Gerbino is Associate Professor in the Department of Music, Columbia University, New York.

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