The Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi

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"The present Companion, while centred on Monteverdi's music, seeks to place it in the context of the institutions for which Monteverdi worked and his intellectual, social and religious environment. It draws together many of the new strands of thought on the composer developed over the last twenty years ... Monteverdi's own letters form a constant source of reference in the essays of this book ..."--Preface. Preface Chronology 1. Approaching Monteverdi: his cultures and ours Anthony Pryer 2. Musical sources Tim Carter 3. A model musical education: Monteverdi's early works Geoffrey Chew Intermedio I: 'Ecco mormorar l'onde' (1590) Geoffrey Chew 4. Monteverdi at Mantua 1590-1612 Roger Bowers 5. Spaces for music in late Renaissance Mantua Paola Besutti 6. The Mantuan madrigals and Scherzi musicali Massimo Ossi Intermedio II: 'Ahi come a un vago sol cortese giro' (1605) Massimo Ossi 7. Orfeo (1607) Joachim Steinheuer 8. The Mantuan sacred music Jeffrey Kurtzman Intermedio III: 'Laetatus sum' (1610) Jeffrey Kurtzman 9. Music in Monteverdi's Venice Iain Fenlon 10. The Venetian secular music Tim Carter Intermedio IV: Lamento della Ninfa (1638) Tim Carter 11. The Venetian sacred music John Whenham Intermedio V: Magnificat SV281 (1641) John Whenham 12. Monteverdi's late operas Ellen Rosand Intermedio VI: Il ritorno d'Ulisse (1640), Act V, scene 10 Ellen Rosand 13. Monteverdi studies and 'new' musicologies Suzanne Cusick 14. Monteverdi in performance Richard Wistreich Bibliography Selected discography Richard Wistreich The works of Monteverdi: catalogue and index John Whenham Index of titles and first lines.