Singing Dante - The Literary Origins of Cinquecento Monody

’... fascinating scholarly discussion, based on every available snippet of information and a vast arsenal of literary sources...’. Min-Ad: Israel Studies in Musicology OnlineElena Abramov-van Rijk received her PhD in musicology from Tel Aviv University. She is the author of Parlar Cantando: The Practice of Reciting Verses in Italy from 1300 to 1600 (2009). In 2007 she received the Dan David Prize from Tel Aviv University for her work on the relationship between music and poetry. Zusammenfassung This book takes its departure from an experiment presented by Vincenzo Galilei in the Florentine Camerata in about 1580. This first demonstration of the stile recitativo is known from a single later source, a letter written in 1634 by Pietro dei Bardi. This report has remained a curiosity in the history of music. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; I: The Ancient Theory of Poetics as Interpreted in the Cinquecento; 1: Performing Poetry in the Cinquecento and the Neglect of Dante; 2: Performing Epic Poems; 3: The Problem of Dante’s Comedy: Genre and Performance; II: The Sonic Effects of Italian Verse; 4: The ‘Sound of Words’ as a Quasi-musical Experience; 5: The ‘Sound of Verse’: Auditory Parameters; 6: Syllable Length in Music Theory; III: Galilei’s Monody; 7: Vincenzo Galilei’s Presentation of Dante; 8: The Rhythm of Verses and Ugolino’s Lament as an ‘Aria’; 9: Monody after Galilei

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• Authors: Elena Abramov-Van Rijk, Elena Abramov-van Rijk, Elena Abramov-van Rijk
• Assisted by: Professor Simon Keefe (Translation)
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.11.2014
• EAN: 9781472437990
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-3799-0
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 250 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Royal Musical Association Monographs; Royal Musical Association Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Italy, Literary studies: general, Italian, Renaissance style, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600), Medieval style