Monteverdi and the End of the Renaissance

by Gary Tomlinson

Book Overview

Combining a close study of Monteverdi's secular works with recent research on late Renaissance history, Gary Tomlinson places the composer's creative career in its broad cultural context and illuminates the state of Italian music, poetry, and ideology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520053486
• ISBN13: 9780520053489
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.