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Curious and modern inventions : instrumental music as discovery in Galileo's Italy / Rebecca Cypess.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780226319582
  • 022631958X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Curious and modern inventionsDDC classification:
  • 784.0945/09032 23
LOC classification:
  • ML503.2 .C96 2016eb
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 'Curious and Modern Inventions' offers an insight into the motivating forces behind music, tracing it to a new conception of instruments of all sorts - whether musical, artistic, or scientific - as vehicles of discovery.
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Includes bibliographical references 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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'Curious and Modern Inventions' offers an insight into the motivating forces behind music, tracing it to a new conception of instruments of all sorts - whether musical, artistic, or scientific - as vehicles of discovery.

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