Michael Talbot

Thomas Walker

Denis Arnold

Donald Jay Grout

Anthony Newcomb

Joel Sheveloff

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is the most up-to-date body of musical knowledge ever gathered together.

Italian Baroque Masters

Katalog zur Jahresausstellung des Fachbereichs Architektur der TU Darmstadt : Centralstation Darmstadt 13. bis 17. November 2006

Sichten Zehn

Giovanni Gabrieli and the Music of the Venetian High Renaissance

Alan Kendall

Michael Raeburn

Roger Blanchard

Howard C. Robbins Landon

Classical Music and its Origins, volume 1.the Romantic era, volume 2.The nineteenth century legacy, volume 3.music in the twentieth century, volume 4.

Heritage of Music: Classical music and its origins

Nigel Fortune

This book is not meant to be a comprehensive account of Monteverdi's life and works. What it sets out to do is to study certain aspects of his music and environment which have been insufficiently stressed in most of the existing books about him and to offer fresh views about some of his more familiar works. In "The Man as seen through his Letters," Denis Arnold and Nigel Fortune provide translations of some forty letters, linked by interpretive commentary, in which the composer's ideas, methods, and approach to composition and other musical matters are clearly revealed. Two chapters on "The Musical Environment" discuss Monteverdi in relation to his teachers, colleagues, and pupils. Monteverdi as thinker and musician is discussed in chapters on the Artusi-Monteverdi controversy, the prima prattica and the seconda prattica, and the madrigal guerrieri, et amorosi. Two further chapters treat Monteverdi as operatic composer, dealing with his first opera and the opera orchestra of his time. The book has a comprehensive bibliography, including a guide to the available editions of the music.

The Monteverdi Companion

Denis Arnold

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