Lettera amorosa
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Availability:In StockContributor:Roseen GilesSeries:Elements in Music, 1600-1750Publish date:2025-03-20Pages:104
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009446785ISBN-10:1009446789UPC:9781009446785Book Category:MusicSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.22 inchesWeight:0.3395Product ID:SCK29HXQYK
Lettera amorosa
In early modern Italy, letters were not only written and read but, in some cases, sung. Musical settings of love letters rekindled a complex kind of vocality which was rooted in the letters of antiquity and endured in the musical sub-genre of the lettera amorosa. Epistolary poetry served to transform, or, to echo Achillini's lettera set by Monteverdi (1567-1643), to 'distill' a lover's thoughts...
Series: Elements in Music, 1600-1750
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009446785ISBN-10:1009446789UPC:9781009446785Book Category:MusicSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.22 inchesWeight:0.3395Product ID:SCK29HXQYK
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