Music and Women of the Commedia dell'Arte in the Late-Sixteenth Century
Anne MacNeil
Price: £70.00 (Hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-816689-4
Publication date: 16 January 2003
372 pages, numerous halftones and music examples, 216x138 mm
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| Reviews |
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Much of this is in evidence in Anne MacNeil's intriguing study of the Commedia dell'arte
, a book that makes an important contribution to our understanding of musical theatre, gender and genre at the northern Italian courts just before and during opera's gestational period.
' - Early Music Review
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| Description | | - First comprehensive analysis of the representation of women on the Renaissance stage and the role of music-making in their craft.
- Narrates the story of the most famous commedia dell-arte troupe of the late Renaissance
| Music and the Commedia dell'Arte
narrates the story of the most famous commedia dell'arte troupe of the late Renaissance, focusing in particular on the representation of women on stage and on the role of music-making in their craft. In its thorough integration of the fields of music history, theatre history, performance studies, women's studies and Classics, this is the first comprehensive
analysis of the leading actresses of the Compagnia dei Gelosi and their contributions to the Renaissance stage. Including an extensive survey of documents concerning comedians, their patrons, colleagues and audiences, Music and the Commedia dell'Arte
provides a rich context for the study of musical-theatrical performance before the advent of opera and re-defines our perceptions of women, music
and theatre in the Renaissance.
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Readership: Historians especially in Music, Theatre, Women's Studies, Italian Studies
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Preface
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Prologue
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Turn About is Fair Play
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Behold, Now there are Amazons of Learning
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The Politics of Description
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Epilogue
Library Sigla
Chronology
Transcriptions
Bibliography
Index
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| Authors, editors,
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Anne MacNeil, Assistant Professor of Music, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA)
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