Word, Image, and Song, Vol. 1 :Essays on Early Modern Italy - Eastman Studies in Music
Word, Image, and Song, Vol. 1 :Essays on Early Modern Italy - Eastman Studies in Music
hardback | English
Published:
1 November, 2013
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781580464291 |
| ISBN10 | 1580464297 |
| Number Of Pages | 414 |
| Item Weight | 756 g |
| Publisher / Reseller | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
| Format | hardback |
Media Reviews
Almost every essay is rooted in seventeenth-century Venice. Nonetheless, the editors have achieved what amounts to a landmark collection of scholarly commentary on the compositional, spatial, visual, hermeneutic, and socio-political power of musical drama in this period. will appeal to scholars across a wide array of disciplines. Encourages a keen reconsideration of documentary sources and the stratified ways in which they can be read, . . . combining empirical analysis with a keen cultural and humanistic perspective. [Cusick's chapter] engages the reader in an old musicological topic made fresh by means of a compelling methodological framework. * MUSIC & LETTERS *
The excellent scholarship, brilliant insights, and fresh and sometimes unconventional thinking in this impressive collection offer a significant contribution to the study of the relationship of music and verbal text in seventeenth-century Italy. Representing modern approaches to questions that in some cases are more than a century old, these essays reflect a harmonious variety of methods, points of view, and interests. --Hendrik Schulze, University of North Texas * . *
Author's Bio
ANDREW H. WEAVER is Professor of Musicology at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.