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Monteverdi and his Contemporaries
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This collection of reprinted essays takes the trends of the author's "Music, Patronage and Printing in Late Renaissance Florence" (also in the "Variorum" series) in a somewhat different direction. If the focus there was primarily on archival documents, here it is on the actual music. The starting-point is similar - the rise of the "new music" for solo voice and basso continuo in late 16th- and early 17th-century Florence, in particular the songs of Giulio Caccini. But it moves on to broader aesthetic issues crystallized in contemporary theoretical debate and musical practice - not least the rise of aria-based styles - and concludes with a series of studies of Claudio Monteverdi's works for the theatre, including the operas "Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria" (1640) and the ever-problematic "L'incoronazione de Poppea".
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