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Monteverdi'S Unruly Women - The Power of Song in Early Modern Italy (Book)
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Monteverdi'S Unruly Women - The Power of Song in Early Modern Italy (Book)
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Monteverdi's Unruly Women examines the composer's madrigals and
music dramas for what they can tell us about the musical and
cultural world of singing and the voice in early modern Italy.
Monteverdi's music demanded trained, female voices to make dramatic
and expressive statements. At a time when singing was not entirely
acceptable for respectable women his music allowed women to use
their voices to gain power. Bonnie Gordon also explores the social
and musical environment in which the singers lived and worked.
Using key primary source material such as singing treatises and
Renaissance writings on medicine and acoustics, Gordon contributes
to two distinct disciplines: she brings an increased engagement
with medical and literary representations of the female body to the
growing field of scholarship treating gender and music, and adds to
a well-established industry of scholarship devoted to the
perception of gender and the body in early modern Europe.
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