Barbara Strozzi in Context - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1009288725 ISBN 13 : 9781009288729

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Synopsis

Renowned as both a singer and composer, Barbara Strozzi was among the most accomplished and prolific composers of vocal chamber music in the seventeenth century. Her works, which have become increasingly popular in concert and recordings in recent decades, are remarkable for their musical sophistication and extraordinary range of expression-humor, irony, eroticism, pathos, and religious devotion. The adopted daughter of the poet Giulio Strozzi and mother of four children, Barbara Strozzi (who might have been a courtesan) was also for a time a participant in Venice's vibrant libertine intellectual and artistic world. This first English-language volume to focus on the composer brings together invited essays by an international group of scholars from diverse disciplines to explore Strozzi's life, her music, and the complex world she inhabited. Chapters focus not only on Strozzi, but also on other prominent women of the time, and on other issues including financial questions and matters of sexuality.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Beth Glixon is an independent scholar who writes on opera production in seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Venice, as well as on the lives of female singers active there. With Jonathan Glixon she published Inventing the Business of Opera: The Impresario and His World in Seventeenth-Century Venice (2006).

Wendy Heller is Scheide Professor of Music History at Princeton University. She is the author of Emblems of Eloquence: Eloquence: Opera and Women's Voices in Seventeenth-Century Venice (2003) and Music in the Baroque (2013) and editor of the forthcoming edition of Cavalli's Veremonda, l'Amazzone di Aragona.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009288725
• ISBN 13: 9781009288729
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 412
• Éditeur: Glixon Beth, Heller Wendy
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie