Monteverdi: Vespers (1610)

Klappentext A guide to Monteverdi's Vespers! providing in-depth information on music settings and performance practice. Zusammenfassung A guide to Monteverdi's Vespers! providing all the information the reader needs for an in-depth appreciation of the music settings! the debate surrounding the intention of the volume! and the problems of performance nowadays. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. The 1610 settings and the liturgy of Vespers; 3. The 1610 print and Monteverdi's career; 4. 'Suited to the chapels or chambers of princes'; 5. 'And all on a cantus firmus'; 6. Issues of performance; Appendices; Notes; Select bibliography; Discography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: John Whenham, John (University of Birmingham) Whenham
• Assisted by: Julian Rushton (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.09.1997
• EAN: 9780521453776
• ISBN: 978-0-521-45377-6
• No. of pages: 152
• Series: Cambridge Music Handbooks
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history