From Madrigal to Opera: Monteverdi's Staging of the Self

Contents

• Introduction Part One. La Musica and Orfeo
• 1. Text, Context, Performance
• 2. Liminality, Deixis, Subjectivity
• 3. Performing the Dialogic Self Part Two. Constructing the Narrator
• 4. From Petrarch to Petrarchism: A Rhetoric of Voice and Address
• 5. In Search of Voice: Musical Petrarchism in the Sixteenth-Century Madrigal Part Three. Staging the Self
• 6. Monteverdi, Narrator
• 7. The Possibility of Opera Epilogue: Subjectivity, Theatricality, Multimediality
• Appendix 1: Tables of Contents of the Madrigal Books
• Appendix 2: Monteverdi, Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda: Text and Translation