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Contents
- Introduction: music in Arcadia: an unsettled tradition
- 1. The idiosyncrasies of chronology
- 2. The return of the shepherd
- 3. Musical remedies
- 4. On the cusp between language and music
- 5. Musical eclipses: theatre
- 6. The boundaries of the genre
- 7. Singing like shepherds, singing like peasants
- 8. Ruzante's song and the rustic picturesque
- 9. Re-founding pastoral theatre
- 10. The (female) performance of high culture: the madrigal
- 11. A pastoral society
- 12. The dark side of Arcadia
- 13. Marenzio's utopia of the senses
- 14. Lost in Arcadia
- Epilogue: pastoral, opera and the impossibility of tragedy.