Modal subjectivities [[electronic resource] ] : self-fashioning in the Italian madrigal / / Susan McClary

• Autore: McClary Susan
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (388 p.)
• Disciplina: 782.4/3/0945
• Soggetto topico: Madrigals, Italian - Italy - 16th century - Analysis, appreciation; Musical form - History - 16th century; Music theory - History - 16th century; Music and language
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Night and deceit : Verdelot's Machiavelli -- The desiring subject, or subject to desire : Arcadelt -- Radical inwardness : Willaert's Musica nova -- The prisonhouse of mode : Cipriano de Rore -- The Coney Island of the madrigal : Wert and Marenzio -- The luxury of solipsism : Gesualdo -- The Mirtillo/Amarilli controversy : Monteverdi -- I modi.
• Sommario/riassunto: In this boldly innovative book, renowned musicologist Susan McClary presents an illuminating cultural interpretation of the Italian madrigal, one of the most influential repertories of the Renaissance. A genre that sought to produce simulations in sound of complex interiorities, the madrigal introduced into music a vast range of new signifying practices: musical representations of emotions, desire, gender stereotypes, reason, madness, tensions between mind and body, and much more. In doing so, it not only greatly expanded the expressive agendas of European music but also recorded certain assumptions of the time concerning selfhood, making it an invaluable resource for understanding the history of Western subjectivity. Modal Subjectivities covers the span of the sixteenth-century polyphonic madrigal, from its early manifestations in Philippe Verdelot's settings of Machiavelli in the 1520's through the tortured chromatic experiments of Carlo Gesualdo. Although McClary takes the lyrics into account in shaping her readings, she focuses particularly on the details of the music itself-the principal site of the genre's self-fashionings. In order to work effectively with musical meanings in this pretonal repertory, she also develops an analytical method that allows her to unravel the sophisticated allegorical structures characteristic of the madrigal. This pathbreaking book demonstrates how we might glean insights into a culture on the basis of its nonverbal artistic enterprises.
• Titolo autorizzato: Modal subjectivities
• ISBN: 0-520-92915-2; 1-59734-757-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450083003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II