Music and Theatre from Poliziano to Monteverdi

ISBN-13: 9780521090070 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 436 str.

Nino Pirrotta; Elena Povoledo; Karen Eales

Opis

This book describes the many ways in which music was used in Italian theatrical performances between the late fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In particular, it concentrates on Polizano's Orfeo, Machiavelli's commedies, the Florentine intermedi and early operas, and the first operas in Venice.