Author: Feldman, Martha
Title: City Culture and the Madrigal at Venice
Description: Berkeley, Univ.of California Press, (1995). orig.cloth. 26x18cm, xxxi,473 pp. Textual photo & musical ill.. Minor rubbing. Slight page-edge soil. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Patrons & Academies in the City: Flexibility in the Body Social; Florentines in Venice & the Madrigal at Home; Petrarchizing the Patron: Vernacular Dialogics & Print Technology; Ritual Language, New Music: Encounters in the Academy of Domenico Vernier; Rhetorical Underpinnings: Currents in Venetian Literary & Linguistic Theory: The Consolidation of Poetry & Rhetoric; Currents in Venetian Music Theory: The Consolidation of Music & Poetry; Petrarchism & the Repertory of Venetian Madrigals: The Madrigals of Adrian Willaert; The Enigma of Rore: Books One & Two for Five Voices; Willaert's Protégés at San Marco: Codification, Dissemination, and Subversion; Epilogue: "Sopra le stanze del Petrarca in laude della Madonna": Rore's Vergine Cycle of 1548.

Keywords: Italian Musical History, Renaissance Italy, Venetian Madrigals, Venice Madrigal, Music, , , ,