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Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice
"In this elegantly constructed study of the early decades of public opera, the conflicts and cooperation of poets, composers, managers, designers, and singers—producing the art form that was soon to sweep the world and that has been dominant ever since—are revealed in their first freshness."—Andrew Porter "This will be a standard work on the subject of the rise of Venetian opera for decades. Rosand has provided a decisive contribution to the reshaping of the entire subject. . . . She offers a profoundly new view of baroque opera based on a solid documentary and historical-critical foundation. The treatment of the artistic self-consciousness and professional activities of the librettists, impresarios, singers, and composers is exemplary, as is the examination of their reciprocal relations. This work will have a positive effect not only on studies of 17th-century, but on the history of opera in general."—Lorenzo Bianconi
A Companion to the Renaissance in Southern Italy (1350–1600)
A Companion to the Renaissance in Southern Italy offers readers unfamiliar with Southern Italy an introduction to different aspects of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century history and culture of this vast and significant area of Europe, situated at the center of the Mediterranean. Commonly regarded as a backward, rural region untouched by the Italian Renaissance, the essays in this volume paint a rather different picture. The expert-written contributions present a general survey of the most recent research on the centers of southern Italy, as well as insight into the ground-breaking debates on wider themes, such as the definition of the city, continuity and discontinuity at the turn of the s...
The Madrigal
The Madrigal: A Research and Information Guide is the first comprehensive annotated bibliography of scholarship on virtually all aspects of madrigal composition, production, and consumption. It contains 1,237 entries for items in English, French, German, and Italian. Scholars, students, teachers, librarians, and performers now have access to this rich literature in a single volume.
Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography that navigates the vast scholarly resources on the composer with the most updated compilation since 1989. Claudio Monteverdi transformed and mastered the principal genres of his day and his works influenced generations of musicians and other artists. He initiated one of the most important aesthetic debates of the era by proposing a new relationship between poetry and harmony. In addition to scholarship by musicologists and music theorists, Monteverdi’s music has attracted attention from literary scholars, cultural historians, and critical theorists. Research into Monteverdi and Renaissance and early baroque studies has expanded greatly, with the field becoming more complex as scholars address such issues as gender theory, feminist criticism, cultural theory, new criticism, new historicism, and artistic and popular cultures. The guide serves both as a foundational starting point and as a gateway for future inquiry in such fields as court culture, opera, patronage, and Italian poetry.
Diventare concertisti. Strategie didattiche e operative per i pianisti
Il saggio di Elena Rossana individua tutti gli aspetti che concorrono alla realizzazione di una buona performance in ambito pianistico: oltre allo studio strumentale, anche l’aspetto psichico e quello motorio. Per quanto riguarda l’aspetto psichico, per esempio, concentra la sua riflessione sul controllo dell’emotività che rappresenta l’elemento condizionante in una esecuzione. Non meno importante risulta essere anche il benessere psichico e fisico, indispensabile al pianista per evitare l’accumulo di stress e per mantenere un corpo tonico. “Il pianista trascorre troppe ore nella stessa posizione a esercitarsi, perciò svolgere un’attività può rappresentare un valido aiuto a...
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Pride in Modesty
Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects created by the agrarian peasantry. Pride in Modesty argues that these ordinary, often anonymous, everyday things inspired and transformed Italian art and architecture from the 1920s through the 1970s. Through in-depth examinations of texts, drawings, and buildings, Michelangelo Sabatino finds that the folk traditions of the pre-industrial countryside have provided formal, practical, and poetic inspiration directly affecting both design and construction practices over a period of sixty years and a number of different political regimes. This surprising continuity allows Sabatino to reject the division of Italian history into sharply delimited periods such as Fascist Interwar and Democratic Postwar and to instead emphasize the long, continuous process that transformed pastoral and urban ideals into a new, modernist Italy.
Maria Paola Colombo Svevo
Questa biografia vuole far emergere una storia comune, di cui Maria Paola Colombo Svevo è stata un 'anello forte'. Classe 1942, nativa di Rho, in provincia di Milano, democristiana, è stata assessore al comune di Monza e alla Regione Lombardia, senatrice e poi parlamentare europea. Si è sempre occupata, prevalentemente, delle fasce più deboli e vulnerabili, con uno sguardo costante alla condizione delle donne e al loro punto di vista sulle cose. È la stessa vita di Maria Paola Colombo Svevo ad aver suggerito la strada da percorrere per la stesura di questo libro: il suo impegno per lastoria comune permette di ricostruire il tessuto culturale della realtà del suo tempo. Nella sua unicità, è anche una biografia 'rappresentativa': di una cultura, di un territorio, di una generazione, di moltissime donne. È parte di una tradizione: quella del movimento cattolico democratico e popolare, delle persone libere e forti, che trova le sue origini nel pensiero di Luigi Sturzo.
