Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [400]-436) and index.

Music in Arcadia: an unsettled tradition. The idiosyncrasies of
chronology -- The return of the shepherd -- Musical remedies -- On
the cusp between language and music -- Musical eclipses -- Theater.
The boundaries of the genre -- Singing like shepherds, singing like
peasants -- Ruzante's song and the rustic picturesque -- Re-founding
pastoral theater -- The (female) performance of high culture -- The
madrigal. A pastoral society -- The dark side of Arcadia --
Marenzio's utopia of the senses -- Lost in Arcadia -- Epilogue:
Pastoral, opera, and the impossibility of tragedy.

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Dewey Class: 780.94509031 -- Music
LCC Number: ML290.2

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Language: eng
Physical Description: ix, 445 p. : ill., music ; 26 cm.

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