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Parlar Cantando

The Practice of Reciting Verses in Italy from 1300 to 1600

by Elena Abramov Van Rijk

  • Hardback
  • 395 pages
  • Publisher: Verlag Peter Lang
  • 16.2 x 23.3 x 3.1 cm

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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.
Parlar Cantando and Responsorial Psalms paperback
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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

    16.2 x 23.3 x 3.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9783039116706

  • ISBN-10

    3039116703

  • Eden Code

    4657075

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