Approaches to Monteverdi : Aesthetic, Psychological, Analytical and Historical Studies (Hardcover, New ed)

Contents: Introduction; Bibliography; Part 1 Aesthetic and Psychological Studies: Monteverdi and early Baroque aesthetics: the view from Foucault; A taxonomic and affective analysis of Monteverdi’s Hor che'l ciel e la terra; A Jungian perspective on Monteverdi's late madrigals; Intimations of chaos in Monteverdi' L'Orfeo; The psychic disintegration of a demi-god: conscious and unconscious in Striggio and Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo. Part 2 Sacred Music Studies: What makes Claudio divine? Criteria for analysis of Monteverdi’s large-scale concertato style; The Mantuan sacred music; 'Laetatus sum' (1610); A Monteverdi Vespers in 1611 (with Licia Mari); Monteverdi’s Mass of Thanksgiving: da capo; Monteverdi’s missing sacred music: evidence and conjectures. Part 3 Critical Editions: Collected works of Claudio Monteverdi: the Malipiero and Cremona editions; Indexes.