An edition of Curious & modern inventions
(2016)
Curious & modern inventions
instrumental music as discovery in Galileo's Italy
by Rebecca Cypess
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Offers insight into the motivating forces behind seventeenth-century Italian music, tracing them to a new conception of instruments of all sorts - whether musical, artistic, or scientific - as vehicles of discovery.
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History and criticism, Music, Instrumental music, Instrumental music, history and criticism, Music, italian, Music, history and criticism, 17th centuryPeople
Carlo Farina (approximately 1600-approximately 1640), Dario Castello (active 1621-1644), Biagio Marini (1597?-1665), Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)Places
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Curious & modern inventions: instrumental music as discovery in Galileo's Italy
2016
in English
022631944X 9780226319445
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Table of Contents
The paradox of instrumentality. The material and the ephemeral in early modern instrumental music
Instruments of the affetti. Biagio Marini's Affetti musicali (1617)
Portraiture in motion. Instrumental music and the representation of the Affetti
"Curiose e moderne inventioni." Biagio Marini's Sonate (1626) and Carlo Farina's "Capriccio stravagante" (1627) as collections of curiosities
Instruments of timekeeping. The case of Frescobaldi's Toccate e partite... libro primo
The stile moderno and the art of history. Artisanship and historical consciousness in the works of Dario Castello.
Edition Notes
"Musical works cited": pages 273-275.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-298) and index.
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