Monteverdi and his Contemporaries

This collection of reprinted essays takes the trends of the author''s Music, Patronage and Printing in Late Renaissance Florence (also in the ''Variorum'' series) in a somewhat different direction. If the focus there was primarily on archival documents, here it is on the actual music. The starting-point is similar - the rise of the ''new music'' for solo voice and basso continuo in late sixteenth-...