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Monteverdi's Unruly Women: The Power of Song in Early Modern Italy - New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism Gordon, Bonnie (State University of New York, Stony Brook)
Monteverdi's Unruly Women: The Power of Song in Early Modern Italy - New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism
Gordon, Bonnie (State University of New York, Stony Brook)
Bonnie Gordon uses the music of Monteverdi, written at the turn of the seventeenth century, to illuminate understandings of music, science and the female body at that cultural moment. Her findings are based on singing treatises, renaissance medical writings and seventeenth-century acoustics.
244 pages, 9 tones 17 music examples
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | January 6, 2005 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521845298 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 246 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 17 mm · 485 g |
| Language | English |