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Parlar cantando: The practice of reciting verses in Italy from 1300 to 1600

Parlar cantando: The practice of reciting verses in Italy from 1300 to 1600

Abramov Van Rijk, Elena

Hardcover

ItalianLiterary CriticismMusic Instruction: General

ISBN10: 3039116703
ISBN13: 9783039116706
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Oct 28 2009
Pages: 396
Weight: 1.59
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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