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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Bonnie Gordon uses the music of Monteverdi, written at the turn of the seventeenth century, to illuminate understandings of music, science and the female body at that cultural moment. Her findings are based on singing treatises, renaissance medical writings and seventeenth-century acoustics.
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The way Music History should be written,
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This book was a pleasure to read: deftly written, informative, and full of interesting facts and well-argued ideas. Gordon examines both Monteverdi's music and the performance of his music from feminist and history-of-science perspectives. She demonstrates that both views enhance our appreciation of his music. Unlike some other people in her field, she uses these theoretical frameworks to help the reader understand the music, rather than using the music to make dogmatic statements about theory. I can't wait to read her next book.
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vorei morire, vaga angioletta, vivi cantando, sei gentile, concerto delle donne, pur crudel, delle ingrate, singing treatises, cor mio, stile concitato, nuove musiche, unruly women, flexible voice, musical gestures, singing ladies, female song, angry ladies, musical spirit, musical logic Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, Adriana Basile, Suzanne Cusick, University of Chicago Press, Princeton University Press, Tim Carter, Gary Tomlinson, Vincenzo Galilei, Anna Renzi, Harvard University Press, Anthony Newcomb, Claudio Monteverdi, Italian Renaissance, New Haven, Yale University Press, Caterina Martinelli, Pietro Bembo, Veronica Franco, Clarendon Press, Early Modern England, Music History, Oxford University Press, University of California Press, Denis Stevens New!
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vorei morire, vaga angioletta, vivi cantando, sei gentile, concerto delle donne, pur crudel, delle ingrate, singing treatises, cor mio, stile concitato, nuove musiche, unruly women, flexible voice, musical gestures, singing ladies, female song, angry ladies, musical spirit, musical logic Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, Adriana Basile, Suzanne Cusick, University of Chicago Press, Princeton University Press, Tim Carter, Gary Tomlinson, Vincenzo Galilei, Anna Renzi, Harvard University Press, Anthony Newcomb, Claudio Monteverdi, Italian Renaissance, New Haven, Yale University Press, Caterina Martinelli, Pietro Bembo, Veronica Franco, Clarendon Press, Early Modern England, Music History, Oxford University Press, University of California Press, Denis Stevens New!
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