Massimo Ossi delves into the most significant aspect of Monteverdi's career: the development of a new compositional style he called the "seconda prattica" or "second manner". Num Pages: 280 pages, 2 halftones, 24 tables, 30 musical examples. BIC Classification: AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 166 x 23. Weight in Grams: 534. . 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . .

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Title: Divining the Oracle: Monteverdi's Seconda Prattica
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Publication Date: 2003
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0226638839
ISBN 13: 9780226638836
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: New

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Claudio Monteverdi's historical position in music has been compared to that of Shakespeare in literature: almost exact contemporaries, each worked from traditional beginnings to transform nearly every genre he attempted. In this book, Massimo Ossi delves into the most significant aspect of Monteverdi's career: the development, during the first years of the 17th century, of a new compositional style he called the "seconda prattica" or "second manner". Challenged in print for the unconventional aspects of his music, Monteverdi found himself at the centre of a debate between defenders of Renaissance principles and the newest musical currents of the time. The principles of the "seconda prattica", Ossi argues in this sophisticated analysis of Monteverdi's writings, music and texts, were in fact much more significant to the course of Monteverdi's career than previously thought by modern scholars - not only did they affect Monteverdi's output for the rest of his life, but as his works became widely known they influenced subsequent composers more than is often imagined. Ossi "divines the oracle" of Monteverdi's ambiguous theoretical concepts in a clear way and in terms of pure music; his book should enhance our understanding of Monteverdi as one of the most significant figures in western music history.

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Massimo Ossi is an associate professor of musicology at Indiana University.

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