Claudio Monteverdi: Songs and Madrigals in Parallel Translation

by Denis Stevens and Claudio Monteverdi

This is the first collection of Claudio Monteverdi's madrigal and song texts published in parallel Italian and English versions. Denis Steven's unique anthology ranges across four centuries of verse for music. More than thirty poets, old and new, famous and obscure, are represented here, many for the first time in English. Enthusiasts and scholars of the music and its period will be extremely interested in finding out what the poems Monteverdi set...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810839342
• ISBN13: 9780810839342
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"