Celebrating its 100th anniversary, this extraordinary series continues to amaze and captivate its readers with detailed insight into the lives and work of music's geniuses. Unlike other composer biographies that focus narrowly on the music, this series explores the personal history of each composer and the social context surrounding the music. In a precise, engaging, and authoritative manner, each volume combines a vivid portrait of the master musicians' inspirations, influences, life experiences, even their weaknesses, with an accessible discussion of their work--all in roughly 300 pages. Further, each volume offers superb reference material, including a detailed life and times chronology, a complete list of works, a personalia glossary highlighting the important people in the composer's life, and a select bibliography. Under the supervision of music expert and series general editor Stanley Sadie, Master Musicians will certainly proceed to delight music scholars, serious musicians, and all music lovers for another hundred years.
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"Covers Monteverdi's life and works with admirable completeness. The chapters on the dramatic music and the composer's reputation are especially valuable."--Composer
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Italian --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
Original Language: Italian --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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'Cremona is built on the banks of the Poe .. . tis eight miles in circuit, environed with Walls Bastions, and Ditches, and hath one Cittadel on the Eastpart, the most stupendious, strong and formidable work in all Italy... Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sacri canti, col nome ancora, sol cortese giro, continuo madrigals, soavi accenti, dolente partita, eccelentissimi autori, eccellentissimi autori, due violini, vorrei morire, madrigali guerrieri, settimo libro, madrigal books, delle ingrate, voce sola, cor mio, cinque voci, arnica mea, concerti ecclesiastici, alla francese, quinto libro, seconda prattica, tre voci, sei voci, anima mia Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Letters of Claudio Monteverdi, Duke Vincenzo, Alessandro Striggio, Procuratia de Supra, Francesco Gonzaga, Giulio Cesare, Alessandro Grandi, Giovanni Gabrieli, Denis Arnold, Giaches de Wert, Adriano Banchieri, Blessed Virgin, Caterina Martinelli, Claudio Monteverde, Denis Stevens, Giovanni Maria Artusi, Marco da Gagliano, Monteverdi's Venetian, Music History, San Rocco, British Library, Duchess of Mantua, Giovanni Battista Doni, Holy Week, Again Monteverdi New!
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'Cremona is built on the banks of the Poe .. . tis eight miles in circuit, environed with Walls Bastions, and Ditches, and hath one Cittadel on the Eastpart, the most stupendious, strong and formidable work in all Italy... Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sacri canti, col nome ancora, sol cortese giro, continuo madrigals, soavi accenti, dolente partita, eccelentissimi autori, eccellentissimi autori, due violini, vorrei morire, madrigali guerrieri, settimo libro, madrigal books, delle ingrate, voce sola, cor mio, cinque voci, arnica mea, concerti ecclesiastici, alla francese, quinto libro, seconda prattica, tre voci, sei voci, anima mia Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Letters of Claudio Monteverdi, Duke Vincenzo, Alessandro Striggio, Procuratia de Supra, Francesco Gonzaga, Giulio Cesare, Alessandro Grandi, Giovanni Gabrieli, Denis Arnold, Giaches de Wert, Adriano Banchieri, Blessed Virgin, Caterina Martinelli, Claudio Monteverde, Denis Stevens, Giovanni Maria Artusi, Marco da Gagliano, Monteverdi's Venetian, Music History, San Rocco, British Library, Duchess of Mantua, Giovanni Battista Doni, Holy Week, Again Monteverdi New!
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- Claudio Monteverdi by Denis Stevens on 18 pages
- The Letters of Claudio Monteverdi by Claudio Monteverdi on 16 pages
- Strunk's Source Readings in Music History (Revised Edition) by Leo Treitler on 5 pages
- Monteverdi Companion by Arnold Denis on 4 pages
- The New Monteverdi Companion by Denis Arnold on page 150, page 167, and Back Matter
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