(Routledge Music Bibliographies) 1st Edition
by Susan Lewis (Author), Maria Virginia Acuña (Author)
Claudio Monteverdi: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography that navigates the vast scholarly resources on the composer with the
most updated compilation since 1989. Claudio Monteverdi transformed and
mastered the principal genres of his day and his works influenced
generations of musicians and other artists. He initiated one of the most
important aesthetic debates of the era by proposing a new relationship
between poetry and harmony. In addition to scholarship by musicologists
and music theorists, Monteverdi’s music has attracted attention from
literary scholars, cultural historians, and critical theorists. Research
into Monteverdi and Renaissance and early baroque studies has expanded
greatly, with the field becoming more complex as scholars address such
issues as gender theory, feminist criticism, cultural theory, new
criticism, new historicism, and artistic and popular cultures. The guide
serves both as a foundational starting point and as a gateway for
future inquiry in such fields as court culture, opera, patronage, and
Italian poetry.
