Susan Lewis - Claudio Monteverdi: A Research and Information Guide

Claudio Monteverdi (15671643) is regarded as one of the most important composers before 1700. He excelled in all genres popular in his lifetime and became a model for future generations of musicians both in Italy and abroad. Monteverdis stature is signaled by the huge role he plays in studies of music of the late-sixteenth through mid-seventeenth centuries. His music provides a framework for our understanding of musical styles, genres, and aesthetics of the period. His music is readily available in modern editions and recordings, and his works remain part of the standard repertory of opera houses and early music ensembles around the world. Tens of thousands of entries in WorldCat and RILM Abstracts connect scholars and students to the work of leading musicologists who have devoted their careers to all aspects of Monteverdis music and influence, and the numerous recordings and frequent staging of his operas indicate the enthusiasm of a broad public.

The surge in digital media and high-quality research on Monteverdi has only increased in the last thirty years. This creates both opportunities and challenges. On the one hand, the sheer mass of material online, much of it credible and by top scholars in the field, opens up access and availability of information on Monteverdi on a scale hitherto unimagined. A Google search for Monteverdi yields over eight million hits. Entering his name in WorldCat results in 22,845 hits from the categories of sound, scores, books, visual, internet, articles, archival, computer, and serials. Given the prominence of Monteverdi, the explosion of digital resources, and the immense change in scope, vision, and focus of musicology since the 1980s, there is a need for a bibliography to supplant Claudio Monteverdi: A Guide to Research (New York: Garland, 1989) by K. Gary Adams and Dyke Kiel (no. 17).

Claudio Monteverdi: A Research and Information Guide helps us navigate the scholarship on Monteverdi and offers a tool to further the study and performance of his music. The volume is a user-friendly reference bibliography detailing the vast resources on Monteverdi and musical culture from ca. 1550ca. 1650. It combines the benefits of a music bibliography, an analytical guide to resource material, and an interactive gateway to diverse media for use by scholars, performers, librarians, community groups, and students.

As an annotated bibliography, Claudio Monteverdi: A Research and Information Guide gives an account of the research that has been done on the composer, with each entry providing a concise summary and assessment of its value or relevance. Each citation provides all of the necessary information to identify and locate the resource, and includes the author, title, edition statement, place of publication, name of publisher, publication date, pagination, series title if any, ISBN (International Standard Book Number), and Library of Congress number. Annotations summarize the content, suggest its relevance and standing in the literature, and provide cross-references and comments on scholarly debates.

, Canzonetta and Madrigal Books, revise and update entries from the authors (SL) The Madrigal: A Research and Information Guide (Routledge, 2012) to reflect the focus on Claudio Monteverdi. All items that appear in the guide have been examined directly.

The second major methodological consideration is how to arrange the contents. We have organized the volume by main subject and subsidiary subjects, beginning with general reference works, major studies of life and works, studies of the music arranged by genre, issues of performance, and Monteverdis historical position and influence. Within these categories, citations are organized alphabetically by author to facilitate quick identification of the main scholars in the field. There are many cases where an item of scholarship fits multiple chapters or sub-chapters in the guide. We have endeavored to select the most fitting placement for each item, and exclude duplicate appearances of the same citation. Readers can consult the index or search online across the book to locate items across the volume on a particular topic or by a specific author.

Indexes authors, editors, and translators whose names appear in citations as the principle authors. Excludes editors of books from which chapters are drawn and annotated. Mentions are given for principle authors, editors, and translators who are named in annotations. Numbers refer to entry numbers, not page numbers.

Abegg, Werner

Ackermann, Peter

Adams, K. Gary

Adkins, Cecil D.

Alessandrini, Rinaldo

Allison, John

Anfuso, Nella

Angles, David Lloyd

Annibaldi, Claudio

Arcangeli, Pier Giuseppe

Arias, Enrique Alberto

Arlt, Wulf

Arnold, Ben

Arnold, Denis

Arpini, Flavio

Artusi, Giovanni Maria

Atti del convegno di studi dedicato a Claudio Monteverdi

Awouters, Mia

Azouvi, Franois

Bacchelli, Riccardo

Bachmann, Claus-Henning

Balsano, Maria Antonella

Barbieri, Patrizio

Barblan, Guglielmo

Barezzani, Maria Teresa Rosa

Baroffio, Giacomo Bonifacio

Baroncini, Rodolfo

Baroque Opera at Smith College

Barraqu, Jean

Bartlett, Clifford

Basso, Alberto

Bates, James

Beaussant, Philippe

Berger, Karol

Bergquist, Stephen A

Bernhard, Christoph

Bernardi, Guillaume

Besutti, Paola

Biaggi, Marisa

Bianchi, Fulvio

Bianconi, Lorenzo

Bielitz, Mathias

Bisaro, Xavier

Blazey, David

Boesmans, Philippe

Bokina, John

Bolzoni, Marco

Bonomo, Gabriele

Bonta, Stephen

Boogaart, Jacques

Borin, Alessandro

Bottrigari, Ercole

Bouquet-Boyer, Marie Thrse

Bowers, Roger

Braun, Werner

Brauner, Charles S

Brque, Jean-Michel

Bridgman, Nanie

Brisson, Elisabeth

Brown, Howard Mayer

Brown, Julia

Brown, Kate

Brunel, Pierre

Brncic Isaza, Gabriel

Bryant, David

Budziska-Bennett, Agnieszka

Buja, Maureen E

Burnett, Henry

Burton, Deborah

Butt, John

Caccini, Giulio

Calcagno, Mauro P

Cambreling, Sylvain

Camp, Gregory

Campagnolo, Stefano

Canning, Hugh

Caraci Vela, Maria

Carapezza, Paolo Emilio

Carter, Stewart

Carter, Tim

Celletti, Rodolfo

Ceulemans, Anne-Emmanuelle