Parlar cantando - The practice of reciting verses in Italy from 1300 to 1600 (Hardcover, New edition)

This book is a pioneering attempt to explore the fascinating and hardly known realm of reciting poetry in medieval and Renaissance Italy. The study of more than 50 treatises on both music and poetry, as well as other literary sources and documents from the period between 1300 and 1600, highlights above all the practice of parlar cantando («speaking through singing - the term found in De li contrasti, a fourteenth-century treatise on poetry) as rooted in the art of reciting verses. Situating the practice of parlar cantando in the context of late medieval poetic delivery, the author sheds new light on the origin and history of late Renaissance opera style, which their inventors called stile recitativo, rappresentativo or, exactly, parlar cantando. The deepest roots of the Italian tradition of parlar cantando are thus revealed, and the cultural background of the birth of opera is reinterpreted and revisited from the much broader perspective of what appears to be the most important Italian mode of music making between the age of Dante and Petrarch and the beginning of Italian opera around 1600.

General

Imprint:	Verlag Peter Lang
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	October 2009
First published:	2010
Authors:	Elena Abramov-Van Rijk
Dimensions:	225 x 150 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	396
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-911670-6
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > Classical, early & medieval Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Other types of music > Vocal music > Choral music Books > Music > Other types of music > Vocal music > Choral music Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Promotions
LSN:	3-03-911670-3
Barcode:	9783039116706

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