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Claudio Monteverdi is one of the most important figures of early music, a composer whose music speaks powerfully and directly to modern audiences. This book, first published in 2007, provides an authoritative treatment of Monteverdi and his music, complementing Paolo Fabbris standard biography of the composer. Written by leading specialists in the field, it is aimed at students, performers and music-lovers in general and adds significantly to our understanding of Monteverdis music, his life, and the contexts in which he worked. Chapters offering overviews of his output of sacred, secular and dramatic music are complemented by intermedi, in which contributors examine individual works, or sections of works in detail. The book draws extensively on Monteverdis letters and includes a select discography/videography and a complete list of Monteverdis works together with an index of first lines and titles.

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The Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi

Claudio Monteverdi is one of the most important figures of early music, a composer whose music speaks powerfully and directly to modern audiences. This book provides an up-to-date and authoritative treatment of Monteverdi and his music, complementing Paolo Fabbris standard biography of the composer. Written by leading specialists in the field, it is aimed at students, performers and music-lovers in general and adds significantly to our understanding of Monteverdis music, his life and the contexts in which he worked. Chapters offering overviews of his output of sacred, secular and dramatic music are complemented by intermedi, in which contributors examine individual works, or sections of works in detail. The book draws extensively on Monteverdis letters and includes a select discography/videography and a complete list of Monteverdis works together with an index of first lines and titles.

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The Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi

Edited by

John Whenham and Richard Wistreich

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Cambridge University Press

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Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521697989

Cambridge University Press 2007

This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press.

First published 2007

Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge

A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library

ISBN 978-0-521-87525-7 hardback

ISBN 978-0-521-69798-9 paperback

Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate.

To Nigel Fortune and the memory of Denis Arnold

Contents

John Whenham

Anthony Pryer

Tim Carter

Geoffrey Chew

Roger Bowers

Paola Besutti

Massimo Ossi

Joachim Steinheuer

Jeffrey Kurtzman

Iain Fenlon

Tim Carter

John Whenham

Ellen Rosand

Suzanne G. Cusick

Richard Wistreich

Compiled by Richard Wistreich

Compiled by John Whenham

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Contributors

Paola Besutti is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at the University of Teramo and a member of the PhD Program on Musical Heritage at the University of Lecce. Since 2003 she has been editor of the Rivista italiana di musicologia . Her publications as author and editor include many articles on music and musical practice in late-Renaissance Mantua, among them La corte musicale di Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga ultimo duca di Mantova (1989), Claudio Monteverdi: Studi e prospettive (1998) and Quante erano le messe mantovane? Nuovi elementi e qualche precisazione su Palestrina e il repertorio musicale per S. Barbara (2006).

Roger Bowers is Emeritus Reader in Medieval and Renaissance Music in the University of Cambridge. He has published articles on the history of Choral Institutions and of Musical Notation, and on English political, ecclesiastical and social history; one aspect of his work is represented by the articles collected in English Church Polyphony: Singers and Sources from the 14th Century to the 17th (1999).

Tim Carter was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1954 and studied at the Universities of Durham and Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Formerly at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London, he is now David G. Frey Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author and editor of numerous books on music in late Renaissance and early Baroque Italy, including Monteverdis Musical Theatre (2002) and The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music (2005), and also of the Cambridge Opera Handbook on Mozarts Le nozze di Figaro (1987) and Oklahoma! The Making of an American Musical (2007).

Geoffrey Chew is Emeritus Professor of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. His publications, as author, co-author and editor, have concerned a variety of fields, including Renaissance music, the music of eighteenth-century Austria and twentieth-century Czech music, and include the New Grove article on Monteverdis works.

Suzanne G. Cusick is Associate Professor of Music at New York University and was the first Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellow at the Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (20012002). She has published extensively on gender and sexuality in relation to music, and has recently completed a monograph on the seventeenth-century Florentine singer-teacher-composer Francesca Caccini.

Iain Fenlon is Senior Tutor and Fellow of Kings College and Professor of Historical Musicology at the University of Cambridge. He is the founding editor of Early Music History (1981) and his many books and articles on Italian music and culture in the Reniassance include Music and Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Mantua (1980, 1982) and Music and Culture in Late Renaissance Italy (2000). His major study of music and society in Renaissance Venice will be published shortly.

Jeffrey Kurtzman is Professor of Music at Washington University in St. Louis. He was the founder and first president of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music. He has authored books, articles, and critical editions on Monteverdi and on Italian sacred music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Among these are The Monteverdi Vespers of 1610: Music, Context, and Performance (1999) and the ten-volume series Seventeenth-century Italian Music for Vespers and Compline (19952003). He is the general editor of the forthcoming Opera omnia of Alessandro Grandi, to be published by the American Institute of Musicology.

Massimo Ossi is Chair of the Department of Musicology at Indiana University. His research interests include early seventeenth-century Italian music theory and aesthetics, Italian lyric poetry, opera, and the Italian madrigal. He is general editor of Music at the Courts of Italy , past editor of the newsletter of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, and author of Divining the Oracle: Aspects of Monteverdis seconda prattica (2003).

Anthony Pryer is a lecturer at Goldsmiths College, University of London, where he directs the Masters degree in historical musicology. Recently he has published on Mozart, Vivaldi and on the philosophy of music. He has been an elected member of the executive committee of the British Society of Aesthetics for the past six years, and is a trustee of the Accademia Monteverdiana.

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