A guide to Monteverdi's Vespers, providing in-depth information on music settings and performance practice.

This is a thorough-going study of Monteverdi's Vespers, the single most significant and most widely known musical print from before the time of J.S. Bach. The a

Claudio Monteverdi is one of the most important figures of 'early' music, a composer whose music speaks powerfully and directly to modern audiences. This book,

A comprehensive edition of Monteverdi's letters which span the years 1601-43 and give an unrivalled picture of the composer's life in Mantua, Venice and Parma,

This book describes the many ways in which music was used in Italian theatrical performances between the late fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In part