The Letters of Claudio Monteverdi

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Cambridge University Press, 31.10.1980 - 443 sivua
This, the fullest edition of Monteverdi's letters, makes every known letter available in English translation. The 126 letters date from the last forty-two years of Monteverdi's career, giving an unrivalled picture of the life of a busy composer working in Mantua, Venice and Parma at one of the most exciting and crucial periods in the history of music. Besides correcting the numerous errors of transcription in previous editions, Professsor Stevens has taken special care in his translations to be faithful to the rhythms and the arched symmetry of Monteverdi's prose. The biographical and historical material he has brought to light is incorporated into the extensive commentaries which introduce each letter. The book as a whole is a magnificent scholarly achievement and an indispensable source of information for the composer's life and music.
 

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Synoptic Table of Letters page
11
Preface
17
Bibliography
424
List of Works by Monteverdi mentioned in the Letters
433
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Ademollo Adriana Basile Alessandro Striggio Archivio Gonzaga Arianna ballet Bertolotti Bifolio Bologna Cardinal Ferdinando carnival Casale Casale Monferrato Cassetta Caterina Medici Gonzaga commands composer composer's copy court Cremona Davari December Director of Music Doni Duchess of Mantua Duke Ferdinando Duke of Bracciano Duke of Mantua Duke Vincenzo Enzo Bentivoglio Ercole Marigliani favour February Ferdinando Gonzaga Ferrara finta pazza Licori Florence Folio Francesco Giovanni Battista Giulio Giulio Strozzi Giustiniani grateful servant Claudio Highness Highness's honour hope House of Gonzaga humble reverence Illustrious Lord Illustrious Lordship's intermezzi July kind kiss your hands letter Lordship Lordship's most grateful madrigals Malipiero March Margherita Marquis Massimiliano month motets musicians November Padua Paoli Parma performed Prunières received reply Respected Master Rome scudi sent September 1627 Serene Lord servant Claudio Monteverdi set to music Signor sing singer Sixth Duke St Mark's Venetian Venice Vincenzo Gonzaga Vogel words write written wrote

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Tietoja kirjailijasta (1980)

Claudio Monteverdi acquired a mastery of composition at an early age. When he was 15 years old, a collection of his three-part motets were published in Venice. In the early 1600s, Monteverdi turned his attention to opera. His first opera Orfeo (1607) is distinguished by Monteverdi's flexible use of music to advance and to comment on the dramatic action. His genius was in the way in which he expressed human emotion in moving melodies. One biographer has termed Monteverdi "the creator of modern music." He is credited with establishing the foundations of modern opera as drama in music.

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OtsikkoThe Letters of Claudio Monteverdi
KirjoittajaClaudio Monteverdi
ToimittajaDenis Stevens
kääntäjäDenis Stevens
Painoskuvitettu
KustantajaCambridge University Press, 1980
ISBN052123591X, 9780521235914
Pituus443 sivua
  
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