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Singing Games in Early Modern Italy : The Music Books of Orazio Vecchi /

In Italy during the late cinquecento, printed music could be found not only in the homes of the wealthy or the music professional, but also in lay homes, courts, and academies. No longer confined to the salons of the elite, music took on the role of social play and recreation. Paul Schleuse examines...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Schleuse, Paul (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Series:Music and the early modern imagination.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The four-voice canzonetta as (and in) recreational polyphony
  • Intertextuality in Vecchi's canzonettas and madrigals, 1583-1590
  • Forest and feast : the music book as metaphor
  • L'amfiparnaso : picturing theater and the problem of the "madrigal comedy"
  • Competition and conversation : games as music
  • Representation and identity in musical performance
  • Appendix. Vecchi, "L'hore di recreatione," from Madrigali a sei (1583).