From Madrigal to Opera

Monteverdi's Staging of the Self
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-520-26768-8
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 334 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 602 g

This pathbreaking study links two traditionally separate genres as their stars crossed to explore the emergence of multiple selves in early modern Italian culture and society. Mauro Calcagno focuses on the works of Claudio Monteverdi, a master of both genres, to investigate how they reflect changing ideas about performance and role-playing by singers. Calcagno traces the roots of dialogic subjectivity to Petrarch’s love poetry arguing that Petrarchism exerted a powerful influence not only on late Renaissance literature and art, but also on music. Covering more than a century of music and cultural history, the book demonstrates that the birth of opera relied on an important feature of the madrigalian tradition: the role of the composer as a narrative agent enabling performers to become characters and hold a specific point of view.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Calcagno, Mauro

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Opernmusik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Barock (ca. 1600-1750)
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Vokalmusik, Chormusik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part One. La Musica and Orfeo
1. Text, Context, Performance
2. Liminality, Deixis, Subjectivity
3. Performing the Dialogic Self

Part Two. Constructing the Narrator
4. From Petrarch to Petrarchism: A Rhetoric of Voice and Address
5. In Search of Voice: Musical Petrarchism in the Sixteenth-Century Madrigal

Part Three. Staging the Self
6. Monteverdi, Narrator
7. The Possibility of Opera

Epilogue: Subjectivity, Theatricality, Multimediality

Appendix 1: Tables of Contents of the Madrigal Books
Appendix 2: Monteverdi, Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda: Text and Translation

Über Autor(innen)

Mauro Calcagno is Associate Professor of Music at SUNY, Stony Brook.