{"product_id":"modal-subjectivities-9780520314252","title":"Modal Subjectivities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this boldly innovative book, renowned musicologist Susan McClary presents an illuminating cultural interpretation of the Italian madrigal, one of the most influential repertories of the Renaissance. A genre that sought to produce simulations in sound of complex interiorities, the madrigal introduced into music a vast range of new signifying practices: musical representations of emotions, desire, gender stereotypes, reason, madness, tensions between mind and body, and much more. In doing so, it not only greatly expanded the expressive agendas of European music but also recorded certain assumptions of the time concerning selfhood, making it an invaluable resource for understanding the history of Western subjectivity. Modal Subjectivities covers the span of the sixteenth-century polyphonic madrigal, from its early manifestations in Philippe Verdelot's settings of Machiavelli in the 1520s through the tortured chromatic experiments of Carlo Gesualdo. Although McClary takes the lyrics into account in shaping her readings, she focuses particularly on the details of the music itselfthe principal site of the genre's self-fashionings. In order to work effectively with musical meanings in this pretonal repertory, she also develops an analytical method that allows her to unravel the sophisticated allegorical structures characteristic of the madrigal. This pathbreaking book demonstrates how we might glean insights into a culture on the basis of its nonverbal artistic enterprises.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"...the book's engaging style, bold premise, and persuasive argument will reward and gratify the reader who possesses a modicum of music literacy and a general interest in Renaissance poetics, regardless of discipline.\"\u003cbr\u003e   * Renaissance Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Examples\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e1 Introduction: The Cultural Work of the Madrigal\u003cbr\u003e2 Night and Deceit: Verdelot’s Machiavelli\u003cbr\u003e3 The Desiring Subject, or Subject to Desire: Arcadelt\u003cbr\u003e4 Radical Inwardness: Willaert’s Musica nova\u003cbr\u003e5 The Prisonhouse of Mode: Cipriano de Rore\u003cbr\u003e6 The Coney Island of the Madrigal: Wert and Marenzio\u003cbr\u003e7 The Luxury of Solipsism: Gesualdo\u003cbr\u003e8 The Mirtillo\/Amarilli Controversy: Monteverdi\u003cbr\u003e9 I modi\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: Examples\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402924958039,"sku":"9780520314252","price":28.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520314252.jpg?v=1730481862","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/modal-subjectivities-9780520314252","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}