Este trabalho apresenta uma investigação acerca do Oitavo Livro de Madrigais de 1638, de Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), obra oferecida à Sacra e Cesárea Majestade Imperador Ferdinando III, ascensionado ao trono máximo do Ocidente em 1637. São delineados o contexto histórico que envolve a obra bem como questões relativas à publicação e dedicatória da coleção de madrigais. É apresentada também uma análise de seu prefácio segundo preceptivas retóricas do gênero demonstrativo ou epidíctico que revelam chaves discursivas e importantes e tópoi que são substanciais para o entendimento da questão ética e patética em música. Tais questões incidem diretamente nas diretrizes performáticas previstas por Monteverdi para realização do stile concitato, procedimento musical encontrado nos Madrigali Guerrieri. Também é realizada uma exegese do textos poéticos dos madrigais onde é revelada a figuração do Eros guerreiro e militante contemplado nas elegias de Propércio e Ovídio bem como nos livros de emblemas amatórios do XVI XVII. Por último, procura-se demonstrar que o stile concitato e seus procedimentos peculiares são dispositivos de ornato dos afetos sugeridos pelos textos dos madrigais, manejados habilmente na música do compositor. / The present work is an investigation about Claudio Monteverdi\'s (1567-1643) Eight Book of Madrigals of 1638, offered to the Sacre and Cesarean Majesty of the Emperor Ferdinand III, ascended to the Ocident high throne in the year 1637. We trace the work historical context and the questions about its publication and dedicatory. We present an analysis of its preface according to the rethoric prescriptions of the demonstrative or epidictic genre which reveals significant discoursive keys and tópoi to the comprehension of the ethical and pathetical matter in music. These questions directly affect Monteverdi\'s performatic guidelines in his stile concitato, a musical procedure found inside the Madrigali Guerrieri. We also do an exegesis of the poetic texts of the madrigals where is revealed the warrior and militant Eros figuration conceived in Propertius and Ovid\'s elegies as well as in the amatory emblem books of XVI and XVII centuries. Finally, we intend to demonstrate that the stile concitato and its procedures are embellishment devices of the affects of the poetic texts in the madrigals, artfully managed in the composer music.

The `Tudor revival' of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century England saw unprecedented enthusiasm for the study and performance of English Renaissance music. The revival, which emphasized choral music, was characterized by a rich and interconnected fabric of events including manuscript discoveries, the publication of sundry new scholarly and performing editions, the founding of ensembles who specialized in early music, and an overall increase in the study and performance of Tudor music. Narratives of the Tudor revival have traditionally focused on the role of institutions and ensembles in London, thereby neglecting the important work that occurred elsewhere in the country. In order to more adequately represent the full extent of the movement, this study examines the previously unrecognized role of the institutions and ensembles of Oxford, demonstrating the many ways in which the foundation colleges, student societies, and civic ensembles and organizations helped to bring about the Tudor revival. The appendix contains previously unpublished documents from the Oriel College Archives in Oxford, primarily consisting of letters to and from Edmund Fellowes between 1897 and 1925.

Este trabalho apresenta uma investigação acerca do Oitavo Livro de Madrigais de 1638, de Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), obra oferecida à Sacra e Cesárea Majestade Imperador Ferdinando III, ascensionado ao trono máximo do Ocidente em 1637. São delineados o contexto histórico que envolve a obra bem como questões relativas à publicação e dedicatória da coleção de madrigais. É apresentada também uma análise de seu prefácio segundo preceptivas retóricas do gênero demonstrativo ou epidíctico que revelam chaves discursivas e importantes e tópoi que são substanciais para o entendimento da questão ética e patética em música. Tais questões incidem diretamente nas diretrizes performáticas previstas por Monteverdi para realização do stile concitato, procedimento musical encontrado nos Madrigali Guerrieri. Também é realizada uma exegese do textos poéticos dos madrigais onde é revelada a figuração do Eros guerreiro e militante contemplado nas elegias de Propércio e Ovídio bem como nos livros de emblemas amatórios do XVI XVII. Por último, procura-se demonstrar que o stile concitato e seus procedimentos peculiares são dispositivos de ornato dos afetos sugeridos pelos textos dos madrigais, manejados habilmente na música do compositor. / The present work is an investigation about Claudio Monteverdi\'s (1567-1643) Eight Book of Madrigals of 1638, offered to the Sacre and Cesarean Majesty of the Emperor Ferdinand III, ascended to the Ocident high throne in the year 1637. We trace the work historical context and the questions about its publication and dedicatory. We present an analysis of its preface according to the rethoric prescriptions of the demonstrative or epidictic genre which reveals significant discoursive keys and tópoi to the comprehension of the ethical and pathetical matter in music. These questions directly affect Monteverdi\'s performatic guidelines in his stile concitato, a musical procedure found inside the Madrigali Guerrieri. We also do an exegesis of the poetic texts of the madrigals where is revealed the warrior and militant Eros figuration conceived in Propertius and Ovid\'s elegies as well as in the amatory emblem books of XVI and XVII centuries. Finally, we intend to demonstrate that the stile concitato and its procedures are embellishment devices of the affects of the poetic texts in the madrigals, artfully managed in the composer music.

The role of women changed constantly during the Renaissance era. Especially notable was the evolution of the role of women within the arts, in which the female gender was becoming particularly sought after. One woman deserving of attention is poetess, philosopher, and musician Tarquinia Molza (1542-1617) who enjoyed notable success at the court of Ferrara. Molza by-passed gender conventions of the day by engaging in traditionally “masculine” activities like philosophy and “feminine” ones such as singing. While there is plentiful scholarship about Molza, no current scholarship has specifically considered how questions regarding the ambivalence of her gender affected Molza’s relationship with her contemporaries. This thesis explores how the notion of masculinity and femininity impacted Molza’s reception among her peers. In order to do so, I examine Molza’s philosophical, poetic, and musical output, before looking at a similarly diverse output from her contemporaries. Though this study does not encompass all of the poetry and musical settings dedicated to Molza, it helps us gain a sense of poetic and musical style, providing the basis for further study. My thesis seeks to further our understanding of the role of women in the northern Italian courts during the second half of the sixteenth century, and strives to examine the links between the gender ambivalence surrounding Tarquinia Molza and her reception among her contemporaries. Moreover, this study sheds light on the importance of gendered rhetoric in late sixteenth-century culture, a consideration that can be further developed and applied to the study of other notable figures.

Often the Italian Madrigal is associated with print and the public marketplace. Yet it originated in handwritten anthologies restrictively circulated by Florentine patricians. In recent years, print scholarship broadened Renaissance musical studies from composer and institutional analyses to those focusing on material form, usage, and meaning. Manuscript studies of the Italian Madrigal, however, are yet to receive similar methodological expansions. This dissertation explores the social world of four manuscript anthologies of madrigals crafted in 1530s Florence. I argue that they participated in a culture whose practices aligned with and projected the elite identities of their owners, remaining in use despite the advent of printed collections intended for the broad consumption and general tastes that dominated the genre’s dissemination from the 1540s onward. Through the four manuscript anthologies, I present a needed cultural history of manuscript usage and meaning in an understudied era of the genre, examining processes of self-fashioning, communal and diplomatic circulation, notational difference, and political identity. I uncover this information through paleographic, primary-source analysis of musical and epistolary documents as well as historical survey. This dissertation reveals, firstly, patrician use of manuscripts as markers of hierarchical distinction in Florentine society. Second, it concludes that manuscript madrigals should be understood alongside other Florentine manuscript practices of epistolary exchange and personal record keeping, as documents intended to accumulate new works and preserve family history and legacy. Third, this dissertation provides a comparative analysis of the music-notational and paleographic differences between contemporaneous print and manuscript versions of Florentine madrigals in the 1530s. This dissertation then concludes with an analysis of the political decorations within one of the manuscript partbook sets that offers insight into Florence’s governmental transition from a longstanding republic to Medici rule in 1530. Altogether, my project reveals particular ways in which the manuscript madrigal projected the individual and communal identity of patrician Florentines to garner distinction among other social classes, to solidify diplomatic bonds and preserve family history, to encode performance through subtle notation, and to engage with cataclysmic governmental shifts as reflected through the political views of individuals and the scribal hand.

Title from accompanying document. / Collegiate Chorale ; conducted by Kathleen Wilson ; J. Sloop, soprano ; D. Huyett, piano ; J. Hall, organ ; Student String quartet ; Student Recorder Ensemble. / Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries

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Recently, musicologists Linda Austern and Suzanne Cusick have examined the socio-cultural implications of gender issues in Renaissance music. Drawing on Cusick's research on gender-based binary oppositions in Italy and Austern's studies of women and music in England, I propose a related set of gender binary oppositions in English society. I apply these oppositions in detail to two specific works from the Elizabethan madrigal and lute song repertoire, then examine the remaining pieces from these collections as a whole and find that an overlap of four particular oppositions better captures the contradictory nature of the music. Examining pieces that fall into each category, I observe how the composer manipulates each to complicate the piece's gender character. I conclude that while binary oppositions grasp the artistic and political trends of an era, a closer look at the tensions at work between them provides a more nuanced view of the music's gender character.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1947. / Works originally for voices. Ms. (arranger's holograph); prefatory material and bibliography typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 150-156).

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