Product Description: Monteverdi's opera L'Orfeo, first performed in Mantua in 1607, is an important milestone in the history of opera. In this new critical edition the entire libretto by Alessandro Striggio is reproduced, including those parts of the text that are not set to music, in the original Italian as well as in a German and English translation...read more
9783795769864 | Schott & Co Ltd, March 1, 2004, cover price $48.95 | About this edition: Monteverdi's opera L'Orfeo, first performed in Mantua in 1607, is an important milestone in the history of opera.
Product Description: The Coronation Of Poppea. An opera in a prologue and three acts. Text by G.F. Busenello, music attributed to Claudio Monteverdi and Francesco Sacrati. Edited by Alan Curtis and English singing version by Arthur Jacobs.
Product Description: This is the first collection of Claudio Monteverdi's "Madrigal and Song" texts published in parallel Italian and English versions. Denis Steven's unique anthology ranges across four centuries of verse for music. More than thirty poets, old and new, famous and obscure, are represented here, many for the first time in English...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
9780810839342 | Scarecrow Pr, October 1, 2000, cover price $43.00 | About this edition: This is the first collection of Claudio Monteverdi's "Madrigal and Song" texts published in parallel Italian and English versions.
Product Description: This is the fullest edition of Monteverdi's letters yet to appear in any language, presenting each of his 126 known letters in English translation. Spanning the years 1601-1643, the letters give an unrivalled picture of the life of a busy composer at one of the most exciting and crucial periods in music history...read more
9780198164142 | Rev sub edition (Clarendon Pr, July 1, 1995), cover price $72.00 | About this edition: This is the fullest edition of Monteverdi's letters yet to appear in any language, presenting each of his 126 known letters in English translation.
Product Description: The English National Opera Guides were originally conceived in partnership with the English National Opera and edited by Nicholas John, the ENO's dramaturg, who died tragically in an accident in the Alps. Most of the guides are devoted to a single opera, which is described in detail—with many articles that cover its history and information about the composer and his times...read more
9780714542072 | Trafalgar Square, April 1, 1992, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The English National Opera Guides were originally conceived in partnership with the English National Opera and edited by Nicholas John, the ENO's dramaturg, who died tragically in an accident in the Alps.
Product Description: All madrigals from one of the Baroque master’s most popular books, reprinted from authoritative Italian edition. New preface, new English translations of the original prefatory material and the Italian texts printed in poem form facing new English line-for-line literal translations...read more
9780486267395 | Dover Pubns, July 12, 1991, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: All madrigals from one of the Baroque master’s most popular books, reprinted from authoritative Italian edition.
Product Description: Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 is a work which has both fascinated and perplexed musicologists and performers for many years. It forms by far the larger part of the composer's first significant publication of sacred music, entitled: 'Of the most blessed virgin a Mass for six voices for church choirs, and Vespers for more voices with several sacred concertos suitable for princely chapels or apartments'...read more
9783795769628 | Schott & Co Ltd, July 1, 1990, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 is a work which has both fascinated and perplexed musicologists and performers for many years.
Product Description: secular madrigals representing "the peak of the music that Monteverdi produced in the first half of his life" (Grove’s Dictionary) are essential to the repertoire of serious vocal students. Amateurs and professionals alike will enjoy the new English translations printed alongside the most reliable Italian text...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
9780486251028 | Dover Pubns, June 1, 1986, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: secular madrigals representing "the peak of the music that Monteverdi produced in the first half of his life" (Grove’s Dictionary) are essential to the repertoire of serious vocal students.