Lettera amorosa

Musical Love-Letters in Early Modern Italy

Roseen Giles (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

104 Seiten

2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-51744-7 (ISBN)

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In early modern Italy, letters were not only written and read but, in some cases, sung. Musical settings of love letters rekindled a complex kind of vocality which was rooted in the letters of antiquity and endured in the musical sub-genre of the lettera amorosa. Epistolary poetry served to transform, or, to echo Achillini's lettera set by Monteverdi (1567–1643), to 'distill' a lover's thoughts and emotions into verse, and the music that set it was equally transformative. The history of musical letters spans several centuries. It begins in the early sixteenth with a setting of Ovid's Heroides by Tromboncino; returns in the early seventeenth through the lettere amorose of Monteverdi, D'India, and Frescobaldi; and ends with epistolary cantatas by Carissimi, Melani, and Domenico Scarlatti. This Element traces the breadth and significance of the musical love letter with a focus on the provocative lettere amorose of the seventeenth century.

Preface; List of Figures and Music Examples; Prologue; 1. Voices of Antiquity; 2. The Epistolary Madrigal; 3. Monteverdi's Love Letters; 4. Lettera amorosa in the Seventeenth Century; 5. The Epistolary Cantata; Epilogue; Bibliography.

Erscheinungsdatum	11.03.2025
Reihe/Serie	Elements in Music, 1600-1750
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	293 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
ISBN-10	1-009-51744-9 / 1009517449
ISBN-13	978-1-009-51744-7 / 9781009517447
Zustand	Neuware