Don Carlo Gesualdo

Name: Don Carlo Gesualdo
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ISBN: 9780198161974

ISBN-10: 0198161972

ISBN-13: 9780198161974

Edition: 2nd 1991

Authors: Glenn Watkins, Igor Stravinsky

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Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, is equally celebrated as the composer of madrigals of great power and tortured complexity and as the murderer of his wife and her lover in flagrante delicto. His life and compositions are not unconnected. His neurotic sensibility found an ideal outlet in the mannerist tendencies of late Renaissance music and his works are the most extreme examples of those tendencies. Glenn Watkins's extended study of Gesualdo's life and works was originally published in 1973. Alongside detailed analysis of Gesualdo's remarkable madrigals and of the few works in different genres, it contained much new biographical material, particularly on the latter part of the composer's…

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List price: $81.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/5/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 438
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.606
Language: English

Glenn Watkins is the author of four books, including Proof Through the Night: Music and the Great War and Gesualdo: The Man and His Music, and is coeditor of Gesualdo's complete works. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.



Gesualdo di Venosa: New Perspective


List of Plates


Introduction to the Second Edition


Introduction to the First Edition


The Man


The Early Years: 1560-1590


Family origins and connections


Birth and youth


The first marriage and tragedy


Literary reflections on the murder


A painting at S. Maria delle Grazie


The end of the affair


Ferrara: 1594-1596


The situation at Ferrara


The second marriage


Marriage festivities and court life


The musical scene: Madrigal Books 1 and 2 published


Tasso and Gesualdo


The return to Gesualdo


Residence in Ferrara


The Last Years: 1597-1613


Domestic crisis


Gesualdo's death


Burial and will


Conclusion


The Music


The Question of Mannerism


The crisis of the Ars Perfecta


The elements of Mannerism


Nature and genius


Gesualdo and Mannerism


Text and Form


Poetic form


The canzone


The ballata


The multi-stanza canzone and sestina


The sonnet


The madrigal


Musical form


The verse/phrase


Larger structural features


Poetic subjects


The problem of textual identification


The Madrigals: Books I and II


Contrapuntal foundations


Some comparisons


The Madrigals: Books III and IV


Backgrounds


Transitions


The Madrigals: Books V and VI


Text and music: disruption and contrast


Gesualdo and the dissonance


Double counterpoint


Tonality and cadence


Accidentals and chromaticism


Harmonic progression


The Late Style: Models and Successors


Pomponio Nenna


Luzzaschi and Macque


Minor Neapolitan figures


The Sacrae Cantiones


Sources; Comparisons; liturgical considerations


The Responsoria


Form and style: liturgical backgrounds


Tridentine ideals and post-Council practice


Renaissance traditions of Holy Week polyphony


Form and tonality


Text, texture, and figuration


Harmony and dissonance


Miscellanea


Canzotte


Psalms of Compline


The Naples Gagliarde manuscript


The Canzon francese del Principe


Aggiornamenti


The Controversy


Postscript


Bibliography


List of Works


General Index