The Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi

Contents

• 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.