Full Description
Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, is equally celebrated as the composer of madrigals of great power and tortured complexity and as the murderer of his wife and her lover in flagrante delicto. His life and compositions are not unconnected. His neurotic sensibility found an ideal outlet in the mannerist tendencies of late Renaissance music and his works are the most extreme examples of those tendencies. Glenn Watkins's extended study of Gesualdo's life and works was originally published in 1973. Alongside detailed analysis of Gesualdo's remarkable madrigals and of the few works in different genres, it contained much new biographical material, particularly on the latter part of the composer's life. This new edition has been extensively updated by the author and contains a new chapter covering the research of recent years.
Contents
Front Matter
Title Page
Preface
Plates
Introduction to the Second Edition
Introduction to the First Edition
Glenn Watkins and Igor Stravinsky: Part One The Man
One The Early Years: 1560-1590
Two Ferrara: 1594-1596
Three The Last Years: 1597-1613
Glenn Watkins and Igor Stravinsky: Part Two The Music
Four The Question of Mannerism
Five Text and Form
Six The Madrigals: Books I & II
Seven The Madrigals: Books III &IV
Eight The Madrigals: Books V & VI
Nine The Late Style: Models and Successors
Ten The Sacrae Cantiones
Eleven The Responsoria
Twelve Miscellanea
End Matter
Aggiornamenti
Epilogue: The Controversy
Postscript
List of Works
