Monteverdi's unruly women : the power of song in early modern Italy

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Monteverdi's unruly women : the power of song in early modern Italy

Bonnie Gordon

(New perspectives in music history and criticism)

Cambridge University Press, 2004

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-228) and index

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内容説明

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.

目次

  • Introduction
  • 1. Vocal anatomies: mouths, breath and throats in early modern Italy
  • 2. Back talk: the power of female song on the stage
  • 3. Madrigalian desire: the convergence of love and sex in madrigals
  • 4. Emblazoning Angioletta: musical fantasies and dissection
  • 5. Angry ladies: changing experiences of sensations
  • Coda.

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