This is the fullest edition of Monteverdi's letters yet to appear in any language, presenting each of his 126 known letters in English translation. Spanning the years 1601-1643, the letters give an unrivalled picture of the life of a busy composer at one of the most exciting and crucial periods in music history. This new edition incorporates numerous corrections and a great deal of new material.

The Letters of Claudio Monteverdi

Biographies & Memoirs

Monteverdi, Claudio

Stevens, Denis

Arts & Literature

Oxford University Press

Tudor Church Music (Da Capo Press Music Reprint Series)

Arts & Photography

Music

Da Capo Press

Musicology: A practical guide (Yehudi Menuhin music guides)

Macdonald Futura

A comprehensive edition of Monteverdi's letters which span the years 1601-43 and give an unrivalled picture of the composer's life in Mantua, Venice and Parma, his thoughts on the aesthetics of opera, his colleagues, and his own works. Extensive commentaries introduce each letter.

Faber and Faber

This is the first collection of Claudio Monteverdi's madrigal and song texts published in parallel Italian and English versions. Denis Steven's unique anthology ranges across four centuries of verse for music. More than thirty poets, old and new, famous and obscure, are represented here, many for the first time in English. Enthusiasts and scholars of the music and its period will be extremely interested in finding out what the poems Monteverdi set to music really mean. The keys Stevens uses in his translations come from a lifetime's work devoted to Monteverdi and his contemporaries.

Claudio Monteverdi: Songs and Madrigals in Parallel Translation

Scarecrow Press

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