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Parlar Cantando

The Practice of Reciting Verses in Italy from 1300 to 1600 [Hardback]

by Elena Abramov Van Rijk

    • Author

      Elena Abramov Van Rijk

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Verlag Peter Lang

    • Published

      October 2009

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      Parlar Cantando

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      Product Description

      This book is a pioneering attempt to explore the fascinating and hardly known realm of reciting poetry in medieval and Renaissance Italy. The study of more than 50 treatises on both music and poetry, as well as other literary sources and documents from the period between 1300 and 1600, highlights above all the practice of parlar cantando (speaking through singing - the term found in De li contrasti, a fourteenth-century treatise on poetry) as rooted in the art of reciting verses. Situating the practice of parlar cantando in the context of late medieval poetic delivery, the author sheds new light on the origin and history of late Renaissance opera style, which their inventors called stile recitativo, rappresentativo or, exactly, parlar cantando. The deepest roots of the Italian tradition of parlar cantando are thus revealed, and the cultural background of the birth of opera is reinterpreted and revisited from the much broader perspective of what appears to be the most important Italian mode of music making between the age of Dante and Petrarch and the beginning of Italian opera around 1600.

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      • Author

        Elena Abramov Van Rijk

      • Book Format

        Hardback

      • Publisher

        Verlag Peter Lang

      • Published

        October 2009

      • Edition

        1st New edition

      • Weight

        746g

      • Page Count

        395

      • Dimensions

        162 x 233 x 31 mm

      • ISBN

        9783039116706

      • ISBN-10

        3039116703

      • Eden Code

        4657075

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      • Author/Creator: Elena Abramov Van Rijk

      • ISBN: 9783039116706

      • Publisher: Verlag Peter Lang

      • Release Date: October 2009

      • Weight: 746g

      • Dimensions: 162 x 233 x 31 mm

      • Eden Code: 4657075

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