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Monteverdi´s Last Operas: A Venetian Trilogy
Ellen Rosand
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Description for Monteverdi´s Last Operas: A Venetian Trilogy
Hardback. Claudio Monteverdi was the first important composer of opera. This work examines the composer's celebrated final works - "Il ritorno d'Ulisse" and "L'incoronazione di Poppea". It casts light on the conflict between a world of emotional propriety and restraint and one of hedonistic abandon. Num Pages: 474 pages, 30 b/w photographs, 4 line illustrations, 21 tables, 40 music examples. BIC Classification: 1DST; AVGC3; AVGC9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 263 x 184 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1050.
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) was the first important composer of opera. This innovative study by one of the foremost experts on Monteverdi and seventeenth-century opera examines the composer's celebrated final works - "Il ritorno d'Ulisse" (1640) and "L'incoronazione di Poppea" (1642) - from a new perspective. Ellen Rosand considers these works as not merely a pair but constituents of a trio, a Venetian trilogy that, Rosand argues, properly includes a third opera, "Le nozze d'Enea" (1641). Although its music has not survived, its chronological placement between the other two operas opens new prospects for better understanding all three, both in their ... Read more
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) was the first important composer of opera. This innovative study by one of the foremost experts on Monteverdi and seventeenth-century opera examines the composer's celebrated final works - "Il ritorno d'Ulisse" (1640) and "L'incoronazione di Poppea" (1642) - from a new perspective. Ellen Rosand considers these works as not merely a pair but constituents of a trio, a Venetian trilogy that, Rosand argues, properly includes a third opera, "Le nozze d'Enea" (1641). Although its music has not survived, its chronological placement between the other two operas opens new prospects for better understanding all three, both in their ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
474
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520249349
SKU
V9780520249349
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About Ellen Rosand
Ellen Rosand is George A. Saden Professor of Music at Yale and author of Opera in Seventeenth Century Venice: The Creation of a Genre (UC Press, 1991, 2007).
Reviews for Monteverdi´s Last Operas: A Venetian Trilogy
"A strong contribution."
Edward Rutschman, Western Washington University Opera Journal
Edward Rutschman, Western Washington University Opera Journal