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Gesualdo Hex Music, Myth, and Memory

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ISBN-10: 0393071022

ISBN-13: 9780393071023

Edition: 2010

Authors: Glenn Watkins

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In this vivid tale of adultery and intrigue, witchcraft and murder, Glenn Watkins explores the fascinating life of Renaissance composer Gesualdo—a life suffused with scandal and bordering on the fantastical—as well as the undeniable impact of his music on a host of twentieth-century musicians and artists from Stravinsky and Schnittke to Abbado and Herzog. Tracing the vitalizing force of Renaissance chromaticism to our own day, this multifaceted account weaves together the cumulative experience of some of the most vibrant musicians of the past half century. The Gesualdo Hex considers how music inevitably takes on a new guise as it is revisited by subsequent generations and how history…    
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Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/25/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.94" long x 0.12" tall
Weight: 1.738
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.

Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Prelude to a Vicenda
Gesualdo and the Crisis of the Late Renaissance
The Hex Is Cast
The Last Madrigals: Removing the Secret Veil
Magic, Melancholy, and Spiritual Exercises
Last Words
Schoenberg: Backward Glances, 1940-1950
Conversations at the Brink: A Schoenberg-Leibowitz Correspondence, 1945-1950
"On revient toujours"
Stravinsky: The Pastness of the Present, 1956-1966
Canticum Sacrum: Old and New at San Marco
Sacrae Cantionum: Gesualdo Redux, 1603/1959
Close Encounters: Monumentum and Movements
The Prince in a Postmodern World
Stoking the Flame
Gesualdo Fever
Gesualdo and the Challenge to History
Retrospectives: Closure or Continuity?
Reinventing History
Envoi
A Gesualdo Breviary
A Gesualdo Portrait Gallery
Notes
Bibliography
Index