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OverviewThe marvellous, a key concept in literary debates at the turn of the seventeenth century, involved sensory and perspectival transformation, a rhetoric built on the unexpected, contradictory, and thought-provoking. The composer Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) created a new practice in which the expressive materials of music and poetry were placed in concert. This innovative new study of Monteverdi's literary personality integrates musical and poetic analysis to create an approach to text-music relations that addresses scholars of both literature and music. It illuminates how experiments in language and perception at the turn of the seventeenth century were influenced and informed by the work of musicians of that era. Giles provides a new perspective on the music and poetry of Monteverdi's madrigals through the poetics of the marvellous. In his madrigals, Monteverdi created a reciprocity between poetry and music which encouraged audiences to contemplate their interactions, and, consequently, to listen differently. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Roseen Giles (Duke University, North Carolina)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 17.70cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 25.10cm Weight: 0.680kg ISBN: 9781009355353ISBN 10: 100935535 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 28 September 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand ![]() We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Monteverdi's Modes of Representation; 1. The sound of the marvellous; 2. Marino And the rime boscherecce; 3. Monteverdi's contradictory kisses; 4. Il bacio mordace: of kissing and biting; 5. Tasso and the music of epic; 6. Monteverdi's earliest laments.ReviewsAuthor InformationRoseen Giles is Assistant Professor of Music at Duke University. She is a specialist in the music of Claudio Monteverdi, and the author of numerous essays on early modern musical culture and the histories of music and literature. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |