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Monteverdi's Unruly Women: The Power of Song in Early Modern Italy.(Book review)
Monteverdi's Unruly Women: The Power of Song in Early Modern Italy. By Bonnie Gordon. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism.) [x, 234 p. ISBN 0-521-84529-7. $80.] Index, bibliography, music examples.
This monograph is the latest addition to the series "New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism" published by Cambridge University Press. The first chapter, subtitled "Mouths, Breath, and Throats in Early Modern Italy," uses the Aristotelian and Galenic views of the human body prevalent in the late Renaissance to present a thought-provoking reading of Monteverdi's soprano duet "O come sei gentile" (seventh ...
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