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Zusatztext '... this is a well-presented series of previously published essays collated to make an interesting volume, containing many challenging ideas and much information concerning the historical background to Monteverdi’s music ... this book will prove a valuable acquisition for the Monteverdi connoisseur, the musico-psychologist, and for music libraries.' The Consort Early Music Journal Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey Kurtzman is Professor of Music at Washington University in St Louis! USA. This volume gathers together twelve essays on the composer's music, reflecting the author's interests in aesthetic and psychological issues, the sacred works, methods of structural analysis, and the problems of making critical editions. All but one of these essays was originally published over a time span of twenty years in journals. Zusammenfassung This volume gathers together twelve essays on the composer's music, reflecting the author's interests in aesthetic and psychological issues, the sacred works, methods of structural analysis, and the problems of making critical editions. All but one of these essays was originally published over a time span of twenty years in journals. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction; Bibliography; Part 1 Aesthetic and Psychological Studies: Monteverdi and early Baroque aesthetics: the view from Foucault; A taxonomic and affective analysis of Monteverdi's Hor che'l ciel e la terra; A Jungian perspective on Monteverdi's late madrigals; Intimations of chaos in Monteverdi' L'Orfeo; The psychic disintegration of a demi-god: conscious and unconscious in Striggio and Monteverdi's L'Orfeo. Part 2 Sacred Music Studies: What makes Claudio divine? Criteria for analysis of Monteverdi's large-scale concertato style; The Mantuan sacred music; 'Laetatus sum' (1610); A Monteverdi Vespers in 1611 (with Licia Mari); Monteverdi's Mass of Thanksgiving: da capo; Monteverdi's missing sacred music: evidence and conjectures. Part 3 Critical Editions: Collected works of Claudio Monteverdi: the Malipiero and Cremona editions; Indexes. ...
