The Monteverdi Vespers of 1610: Music, Context, Performance [Hardcover]

Jeffrey Kurtzman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 16, 2000 | ISBN-10: 0198164092 | ISBN-13: 978-0198164098

This is the only extensive study of the Monteverdi Vespers, vastly expanding on the author's 1978 set of essays on the subject, long since out-of-print. The volume studies the Vespers from the perspectives of its musical and liturgical origins and context, presents analytical essays on the music, and examines seventeenth-century performance practice as it pertains to the Vespers. Appendices include bibliographies and an analytical discography.

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"Authoritative...monumental...invaluable...enviably thorough...Kurtzman succeeds in offering a quantum leap forward of the greatest significance."--Music and Letters

"Kurtzman has distilled his encyclopedic knowledge of early seventeenth-century Italian liturgical music....Although centered on the Vespers, the discussion touches on many subjects that will hold the attention of anyone interested in early seventeenth-century Italian sacred music. What Kurtzman has done, then, is to use one of the great (and problematic) masterpieces of music to shed light on an entire repertory....This book is a major contribution to the scholarship not only of Monteverdi's Vespers, but also of North Italian sacred music of the early part of the seventeenth century." --Journal of the American Musicological Society

About the Author

Jeffrey Kurtzman is at University of Washington in St Louis.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 624 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (March 16, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198164092
• ISBN-13: 978-0198164098
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.5 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,505,394 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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