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

Paul Schleuse is Associate Professor of Music at Binghamton University, State University of New York.

List of contents

Introduction

1. The Four-Voice Canzonetta as (and in) Recreational Polyphony

2. Intertextuality in Vecchi's Canzonettas and Madrigals, 1583-1590

3. Forest and Feast: The Music Book as Metaphor

4. L'Amfiparnaso: Picturing Theatre & The Problem of the "Madrigal Comedy"

5. Competition and Conversation: Games as Music

6. Representation and Identity in Musical Performance

Appendix: Vecchi, L'hore di recreatione from Madrigali a sei (1583).

Notes

Works Cited

Index

About the author

Paul Schleuse is Associate Professor of Music at Binghamton University, State University of New York.

Summary

In Italy during the late cinquecento, printed music could be found not only in the homes of the wealthy or the music professional, but in lay homes, courts, and academies as well. This book examines these new musical forms through a study of the music books of Italian priest, poet, and composer, Orazio Vecchi.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Schleuse, Schleuse Paul
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.06.2015
• EAN: 9780253015013
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01501-3
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Music and the Early Modern Ima; Music and the Early Modern Ima; Music and the Early Modern Imagination
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs