Monteverdi's unruly women: the power of song in early modern italy
Auteur :
Gordon, Bonnie
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521845298
Date de publication :
6 janv. 2005
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 1,7 cm
Poids :
530 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.