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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.

ISBN-13

9780198161974

ISBN-10

0198161972

Weight

1.54 Pounds

Dimensions

6.06 x 1.14 x 9.21 In

List Price

$81.00

Edition

2nd Edition

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

438 pages

Publisher

Clarendon Press

Published On

1991-12-05



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