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From Madrigal to Opera : Monteverdi's Staging of the Self
This pathbreaking study links two traditionally separate genres as their stars crossed to explore the emergence of multiple selves in early modern Italian culture and society. Mauro Calcagno focuses on the works of Claudio Monteverdi, a master of both genres, to investigate how they reflect changing...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2012.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- PART ONE. LA MUSICA AND ORFEO; 1. Text, Context, Performance; Performing Nobility; Authorizing Performance; The Work of Opera; 2. Liminality, Deixis, Subjectivity; Prologues as Paratexts; "I am Music"; The Prologue of Orfeo as Performance; Dialogic Subjectivity; Subject-Effects; 3. Performing the Dialogic Self; Music's Touch; Echoes; PART TWO. CONSTRUCTING THE NARRATOR; 4. From Petrarch to Petrarchism: A Rhetoric of Voice and Address; Voi ch'ascoltate; Appropriating the Self; Lyric Modes; Equivocality.
- 5. In Search of Voice: Musical Petrarchism in the Sixteenth-Century MadrigalTheatricality and Temporal Perspective; Diffracting the Self; Who is Speaking? From Soggetto to Dialogo; The Madrigal Book as Canzoniere; PART THREE. STAGING THE SELF; 6. Monteverdi, Narrator; From Narration to Focalization; Combattimento between Page and Stage; 7. The Possibility of Opera; The Aesthetics of Nothing: Monteverdi, Marino, and the Incogniti; Focalization in Poppea; Epilogue: Subjectivity, Theatricality, Multimediality; Appendix 1: Tables of Contents of the Madrigal Books.
- Appendix 2: Monteverdi, Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda: Text and Translation; Notes; Index.