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Title

Gesualdo : the man and his music / Glenn Watkins ; preface by Igor Stravinsky.

Author

Watkins, Glenn, 1927-

Publication

Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.

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Description

xxiv, 414 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subject

• Gesualdo, Carlo, principe di Venosa, approximately 1560-1613 > Criticism and interpretation
• Gesualdo, Carlo, principe di Venosa, ca 1560-1613
• Gesualdo, Carlo, (1560?-1613) > Critique et interprétation
• Compositeurs > Italie > Biographies
• Madrigaux italiens
• Italian songs
• 1561-1613

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-399) and index.

Contents

Gesualdo di Venosa: New Perspective / Igor Stravinsky -- List of Plates -- The Man -- The Early Years: 1560-1590 -- Family origins and connections -- Birth and youth -- The first marriage and tragedy -- Literary reflections on the murder -- A painting at S. Maria delle Grazie -- The end of the affair -- Ferrara: 1594-1596 -- The situation at Ferrara -- The second marriage -- Marriage festivities and court life -- The musical scene: Madrigal Books 1 and 2 published -- Tasso and Gesualdo -- The return to Gesualdo -- Residence in Ferrara -- The Last Years: 1597-1613 -- Domestic crisis -- Gesualdo's death -- Burial and will -- The Music -- The Question of Mannerism -- The crisis of the Ars Perfecta -- The elements of Mannerism -- Nature and genius -- Gesualdo and Mannerism -- Text and Form -- Poetic form -- The canzone -- The ballata -- The multi-stanza canzone and sestina -- The sonnet -- The madrigal -- Musical form -- The verse/phrase -- Larger structural features -- Poetic subjects -- The problem of textual identification -- The Madrigals: Books I and II -- Contrapuntal foundations -- Some comparisons -- The Madrigals: Books III and IV -- Backgrounds -- Transitions -- The Madrigals: Books V and VI -- Text and music: disruption and contrast -- Gesualdo and the dissonance -- Double counterpoint -- Tonality and cadence -- Accidentals and chromaticism -- Harmonic progression -- The Late Style: Models and Successors -- Pomponio Nenna -- Luzzaschi and Macque -- Minor Neapolitan figures -- The Sacrae Cantiones -- Sources; comparisons; liturgical considerations -- The Responsoria -- Form and style: liturgical backgrounds -- Tridentine ideals and post-Council practice -- Renaissance traditions of Holy Week polyphony -- Form and tonality -- Text, texture, and figuration -- Harmony and dissonance Miscellanea -- Canzonette -- Psalms of Compline -- The Naples Gagliarde manuscript -- The Canzon Francese del Principe.

ISBN

• 0198162162 (hardback)
• 9780198162162 (hardback)
• 0198161972 (pbk.)
• 9780198161974 (pbk.)

LCCN

92212547

OCLC

• ocm27684581
• 502455650
• ocn502455650
• 27684581
• SCSB-14465752

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries