The Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi
- Editor: Whenham, John
- Editor: Wistreich, Richard
The book is not only informative but genuinely illuminating, particularly since it elegantly tackles details and complexities in the historical evidence —
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Contents
- Preface
- Chronology
- 1. Approaching Monteverdi: his cultures and ours Anthony Pryer
- 2. Musical sources Tim Carter
- 3. A model musical education: Monteverdi's early works Geoffrey Chew
- Intermedio I: 'Ecco mormorar l'onde' (1590) Geoffrey Chew
- 4. Monteverdi at Mantua 1590-1612 Roger Bowers
- 5. Spaces for music in late Renaissance Mantua Paola Besutti
- 6. The Mantuan madrigals and Scherzi musicali Massimo Ossi
- Intermedio II: 'Ahi come a un vago sol cortese giro' (1605) Massimo Ossi
- 7. Orfeo (1607) Joachim Steinheuer
- 8. The Mantuan sacred music Jeffrey Kurtzman
- Intermedio III: 'Laetatus sum' (1610) Jeffrey Kurtzman
- 9. Music in Monteverdi's Venice Iain Fenlon
- 10. The Venetian secular music Tim Carter
- Intermedio IV: Lamento della Ninfa (1638) Tim Carter
- 11. The Venetian sacred music John Whenham
- Intermedio V: Magnificat SV281 (1641) John Whenham
- 12. Monteverdi's late operas Ellen Rosand
- Intermedio VI: Il ritorno d'Ulisse (1640), Act V, scene 10 Ellen Rosand
- 13. Monteverdi studies and 'new' musicologies Suzanne Cusick
- 14. Monteverdi in performance Richard Wistreich
- Bibliography
- Selected discography Richard Wistreich
- The works of Monteverdi: catalogue and index John Whenham
- Index of titles and first lines.