Curious & modern inventions : instrumental music as discovery in Galileo's Italy /
Curious and modern inventions
Rebecca Cypess.
- xix, 307 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), music ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-298) and index.
The paradox of instrumentality: the material and the ephemeral in early modern -- Instrumental music -- Instruments of the affetti: Biagio Marini's Affetti musicali (1617) -- Portraiture in motion: instrumental music and the representation of the Affetti -- "Curiose e moderne inventioni": Biagio Marini's Sonate (1626) and Carlo Farina's "Capriccio stravagante" (1627) as collections of curiosities -- Instruments of timekeeping: the case of Frescobaldi's Toccate e partite . . . libro primo -- The stile moderno and the art of history: artisanship and historical consciousness in the works of Dario Castello.
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Marini, Biagio, 1597?-1665. Affetti musicali. Farina, Carlo, approximately 1600-approximately 1640. Frescobaldi, Girolamo, 1583-1643. Castello, Dario, active 1621-1644.
Instrumental music--History and criticism.--Italy--17th century Music--History and criticism.--Italy--17th century