 | Monteverdi and the End of the Renaissance Subjects: Monteverdi Claudio 1567–1643. Vocal music; Music -- 16th century -- History and criticism; Music -- 17th century -- History and criticism; Combining a close study of Monteverdi's secular works with recent research on late Renaissance history, Gary Tomlinson places the composer's creative career in its broad cultural context and illuminates the state of Italian music, poetry, and ideology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Tomlinson Gary : Gary Tomlinson is Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania and a 1988 MacArthur Fellow. |
