Music and Theatre from Poliziano to Monteverdi

Music and Theatre from Poliziano to Monteverdi
Author: Nino Pirrotta
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 1982-02-04
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521232593

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This book describes the many ways in which music was used in Italian theatrical performances between the late fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In particular, it concentrates on Polizano's Orfeo, Machiavelli's commedies, the Florentine intermedi and early operas, and the first operas in Venice.