Monteverdi's Unruly Women: The Power of Song in Early Modern Italy by Bonnie Gordon

Monteverdi's Unruly Women: The Power of Song in Early Modern Italy

Bonnie Gordon

248 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

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Monteverdi's Unruly Women examines the composer's madrigals and music dramas for what they can tell us about the musical and cultural world of singing and the voice in early modern Italy. Monteverdi's music demanded trained, female voices to make ...

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