Passaggio In Italia Music On The Grand Tour In The Seventeenth Century

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Some of the contents: Italian soundscapes: Souvenirs from the Grand Tour, Dinko Fabris; Musical encounters public and private, Margaret Murata; Singer-songwriters, the Lute, and the Stile Nuovo, John Griffiths; High, middle, and low: Singing Monteverdi, Richard Wistreich; 'Italia decolor?' Constantijn Huygens and Italian Music, Rudolf Rasch; Caccini in the Netherlands, Natascha Veldhorst; Barbara Strozzi and the taming of the male poetic voice, Wendy B. Heller; Travelling players and Venetian Opera: Further parallels between Commedia dell'arte and Dramma per musica, John Walter Hill; 'Fortuna instabile': Francesco Lucio and Opera Production in Seventeenth-Century Venice, Beth L. Glixon; Cavalli as performer: What the Manuscript score can tell us, Hendrik Schulze; A French visitor to Florence, May 1589, Iain Fenlon; The Oratorio in Rome in the Seicento: Its sites and its public, Arnaldo Morelli.