Modal Subjectivities: Self-Fashioning in the Italian Madrigal

by Susan McClary

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520314255
• ISBN13: 9780520314252
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"