{"product_id":"parlar-cantando-the-practice-of-reciting-verses-in-italy-from-1300-to-1600-9783039116706","title":"Parlar cantando: The practice of reciting verses","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 \u003ci\u003eparlar cantando\u003c\/i\u003e («speaking through singing» – the term found in \u003ci\u003eDe li contrasti,\u003c\/i\u003e a fourteenth-century treatise on poetry) as rooted in the art of reciting verses. Situating the practice of\u003ci\u003e parlar cantando \u003c\/i\u003ein 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 \u003ci\u003estile recitativo, rappresentativo\u003c\/i\u003e or, exactly, \u003ci\u003eparlar cantando.\u003c\/i\u003e The deepest roots of the Italian tradition of \u003ci\u003eparlar cantando\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: Poetry Recitation in the Italian Trecento – Different Types of Music for Delivering Poetry – From \u003ci\u003erudium inordinatum concinium \u003c\/i\u003eto Professional Poetry Meant To Be Sung – Verse Reciting as Scholarly Discipline – \u003ci\u003eScansio\u003c\/i\u003e: One Aspect of the Relation between Music and Poetic Text in Sixteenth Century Theory – Verse Structure in the Musical Setting of Selected Trecento Compositions – Text Underlay in Manuscripts of Trecento Music – Structure of Verse and \u003ci\u003emusica contrafacta\u003c\/i\u003e in the Trecento Music.","brand":"Verlag Peter Lang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043738648919,"sku":"9783039116706","price":74.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783039116706.jpg?v=1750959297","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/parlar-cantando-the-practice-of-reciting-verses-in-italy-from-1300-to-1600-9783039116706","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}