Monteverdi and the End of the Renaissance
by Gary Tomlinson
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Author: Gary TomlinsonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1990-07-09
ISBN: 0520069803
Number of pages: 292
Publisher: University of California Press
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Book Review: A wise and profound approach to Monteverdi's music
Summary: 5 Stars
Tomlinsom is an expert on Renaissance music and his writing is clear and sharp, with no obstrusive academicism. This book reveals a lot of information about music and life in 16th and 17th centuries.
Summary of Monteverdi and the End of the Renaissance
Combining a close study of Monteverdi's secular works with recent research on late Renaissance history, Gary Tomlinson places the composer's creative career in its broad cultural context and illuminates the state of Italian music, poetry, and ideology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.Instruments & Performers Books
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