{"product_id":"monteverdi-and-his-contemporaries","title":"Monteverdi and his Contemporaries","description":"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 sixteenth- and early seventeenth-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 di Poppea (1643).","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54236551741784,"sku":"9780860788232","price":45.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780860788232_bc600aac-d7f6-49b3-b949-442a32adbb49.jpg?v=1770170431","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/monteverdi-and-his-contemporaries","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}