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Music and the myth of Arcadia in Renaissance Italy

Title: Music and the myth of Arcadia in Renaissance Italy / Giuseppe Gerbino.
Author: Gerbino, Giuseppe
Publication: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Description

ix, 445 pages : illustrations, music; 26 cm.

Summary

"The idea that there was a time when men and women lived in perfect harmony with nature and with themselves, though rooted in classical antiquity, was one of the most fertile products of the Renaissance literary and artistic imagination. This book explores one specific aspect of this idea: the musical representation and stylization of the myth of Arcadia in sixteenth-century Italy Giuseppe Gerbino outlines how Renaissance culture strove to keep this utopia alive, and demonstrates how music played a fundamental role in the construction and preservation of this collective illusion. Covering a range of different music genres, including the madrigal, music for theater, and early opera, the book overcomes traditional barriers among genres. Illustrative music examples, including previously unpublished music, serve to remind the reader's knowledge of this important repertory, and provide new insights into the role of music in the formation and dissemination of cultural myths."--Jacket.

Series Statement

New perspectives in music history and criticism

Uniform Title

New perspectives in music history and criticism.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 400-436) and index.

Contents

Music in Arcadia : an unsettled tradition. The idiosyncrasies of chronology -- The return of the shepherd -- Musical remedies -- On the cusp between language and music -- Musical eclipses -- Theater. The boundaries of the genre -- Singing like shepherds, singing like peasants -- Ruzante's song and the rustic picturesque -- Re-founding pastoral theater -- The (female) performance of high culture -- The madrigal. A pastoral society -- The dark side of Arcadia -- Marenzio's utopia of the senses -- Lost in Arcadia -- Epilogue : Pastoral, opera, and the impossibility of tragedy.

ISBN

9780521899567
0521899567
9781107659223
1107659221

LCCN

2008049142
99995288545

OCLC

ocn268793380
268793380
SCSB-14717555

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries