Monteverdi and the marvellous : poetry, sound, and representation /

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-281) and index.Introduction : Monteverdi's modes of representation -- The sound of the marvellous. Meraviglia in the late Renaissance ; the sound of the marvellous -- Marino and the Rime boscherecce. Monteverdi and the poet of the five senses ; Inverisimilar narratives : Monteverdi's Madrigali boscherecci (1614) -- Monteverdi's contradictory kisses. What does a lover want from time? : Eros in Greek lyric ; Monteverdi's personal impatience : The second book (1590) -- Il bacio mordace : Of kissing and biting. Concerto : Monteverdi and the Song of kisses (1619) -- Tasso and the music of epic. Monteverdi and epic ; Outbid but not outdone : Giaches de Wert ; "In mille piante incise" : On engraving trees and hearts -- Monteverdi's earliest laments. Epic laments : The third book (1592) ; Monteverdi's Armida ; Tancredi and Rinaldo : Monteverdi and lamenting men."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"--