Monteverdi's Unruly Women: The Power of Song in Early Modern ItalyCambridge University Press, 2004 - 234 páginas Monteverdi's Unruly Women examines the composer's madrigals and music dramas for what they can tell us about the musical and cultural world of singing and the voice in early modern Italy. Monteverdi's music demanded trained, female voices to make dramatic and expressive statements. At a time when singing was not entirely acceptable for respectable women his music allowed women to use their voices to gain power. Bonnie Gordon also explores the social and musical environment in which the singers lived and worked. Using key primary source material such as singing treatises and Renaissance writings on medicine and acoustics, Gordon contributes to two distinct disciplines: she brings an increased engagement with medical and literary representations of the female body to the growing field of scholarship treating gender and music, and adds to a well-established industry of scholarship devoted to the perception of gender and the body in early modern Europe. |
Contenido
Vocal anatomies mouths breath and throats in early modern Italy | 10 |
Back talk the power of female song on the stage | 47 |
Madrigalian desire the convergence of love and sex in madrigals | 86 |
Emblazoning Angioletta musical fantasies and dissection | 131 |
Coda | 201 |
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Monteverdi's Unruly Women: The Power of Song in Early Modern Italy Bonnie Gordon Sin vista previa disponible - 2009 |
Términos y frases comunes
Adriana Basile ancient anger Anna Renzi Anthony Newcomb Ariadne Ariadne's Armida Artusi ballo delle ingrate bass beauty book of madrigals breath Caccini ch'io vorei morire Claudio Monteverdi Clorinda Combattimento concerto delle donne court culture Descartes described desire discussion dissonances dolce dramatic early modern Eccomi pronta embodied erotic experience female body female singers female voice Florentine Camerata Follino Galen gender gentile gestures Guarini's harmony humoral Ibid instruments Italian L'Arianna ladies lament listeners lover madrigals male Mantua Monteverdi motion mouth move nature Neoplatonic Opera ornaments Ovid passaggi passions performance Petrarch Petrarchan physical piece pleasure poem poetic Poppea Princeton pronta ai baci Renaissance representations rhetoric sensation sensuality seventeenth century sexual Sì ch'io vorei singing song sonorous soul sound spirit stile concitato Susan McClary Tancredi throat tion Titian trans transformation Tullia d'Aragona unruly vaga Angioletta Veronica Franco Vincenzo Galilei virtuosity vocal vorei woman women words
Referencias a este libro
Opera's First Master: The Musical Dramas of Claudio Monteverdi, Volumen1 Mark Ringer Vista previa limitada - 2006 |