Monteverdi and the End of the Renaissance

Tomlinson, Gary

Combining a close study of Monteverdi's secular works with recent research on late Renaissance history, Gary Tomlinson places the composer's creative career in its broad cultural context and illuminates the state of Italian music, poetry, and ideology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

EAN

9780520069800

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

9 July 1990

Pages

292