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Singing Dante: The Literary Origins of Cinquecento Monody

By: Elena Abramov-van Rijk

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Singing Dante: The Literary Origins of Cinquecento Monody

By: Elena Abramov-van Rijk

This book takes its departure from an experiment presented by Vincenzo Galilei before his colleagues in the Florentine Camerata in about 1580. This event, namely the first demonstration of the stile recitativo, is known from a single later source, a letter written in 1634 by Pietro dei Bardi, son of the founder of the Camerata. In the complete absence of any further information, Bardi’s report has remained a curiosity in the history of music, and it has seemed impossible to determine the true nature and significance of Galilei's presentation. That, unfortunately, still remains true for the music, which is lost. Yet we know a crucial fact about this experiment, the poetic text chosen by Galilei: it was an excerpt from the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, the Lament of Count Ugolino. Starting from this information the author examines the problem from another angle. Investigation of the perception of Dante’s poetry in the sixteenth century, as well as a deeper enquiry into cinquecento poetic theories (and especially phonetics) leads to a reconstruction of Galilei’s motives for choosing this text and sheds light on some of the features of his experiment.

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Parlar Cantando

The Practice of Reciting Verses in Italy from 1300 to 1600

By: Elena Abramov-van Rijk

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Parlar Cantando

The Practice of Reciting Verses in Italy from 1300 to 1600

By: Elena Abramov-van Rijk

This book is a pioneering attempt to explore the fascinating and hardly known realm of reciting poetry in medieval and Renaissance Italy. The study of more than 50 treatises on both music and poetry, as well as other literary sources and documents from the period between 1300 and 1600, highlights above all the practice of parlar cantando («speaking through singing» - the term found in De li contrasti, a fourteenth-century treatise on poetry) as rooted in the art of reciting verses. Situating the practice of parlar cantando in the context of late medieval poetic delivery, the author sheds new light on the origin and history of late Renaissance opera style, which their inventors called stile recitativo, rappresentativo or, exactly, parlar cantando. The deepest roots of the Italian tradition of parlar cantando are thus revealed, and the cultural background of the birth of opera is reinterpreted and revisited from the much broader perspective of what appears to be the most important Italian mode of music making between the age of Dante and Petrarch and the beginning of Italian opera around 1600.

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Singing Dante: The Literary Origins of Cinquecento Monody

By: Elena Abramov-van Rijk

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Parlar Cantando

The Practice of Reciting Verses in Italy from 1300 to 1600

By: Elena Abramov-van Rijk

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The Practice of Reciting Verses in Italy from 1300 to 1600

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Singing Dante: The Literary Origins of Cinquecento Monody

Singing Dante: The Literary Origins of Cinquecento Monody

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Parlar Cantando

Singing Dante: The Literary Origins of Cinquecento Monody

Singing Dante: The Literary Origins of Cinquecento Monody

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