Gesualdo by Watkins

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Summary

Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Verona, is equally celebrated as the composer of madrigals of great power and complexity and as the murderer of his wife and her lover. This detailed study of his life and music has been updated to include new biographical material on the composer's latter years.

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Gesualdo by Watkins

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 life. This new edition has been extensively updated by the author and contains a new chapter covering the research of recent years.
'In a second edition Profesor Glenn Watkins has revised his 1973 book, which was a notable contribution to musicology, and has added a new chapter and epilogue bringing up to date the study of the composer' Contemporary Review, Dec '91
Hamm, Charles: - Charles Hamm was an American musicologist and composer known for his scholarly work on American popular music.
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ISBN 13 9780198161974
ISBN 10 0198161972
Title Gesualdo
Author Watkins
Series Clarendon Paperbacks Ser
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 1991-08-15
Number of pages 438
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.