"Integrating musical and poetic analysis, this book sheds new light on the experience of listening to Monteverdi's path-breaking madrigals. The music of this pivotal figure reveals how composers and performers at the turn of the seventeenth century not only responded to but themselves influenced experiments in language"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Monteverdi's Modes of Representation; 1. The sound of the marvellous; 2. Marino And the rime boscherecce; 3. Monteverdi's contradictory kisses; 4. Il bacio mordace: of kissing and biting; 5. Tasso and the music of epic; 6. Monteverdi's earliest laments.
