STORIA DELLA MUSICA DEL MEDIOEVO E RINASCIMENTO

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The course examines the period from 1590-1612 in the life and musical career of famous Italian renaissance composer Claudio Monteverdi. The course focuses on the technical and innovative characteristics of his musical compositions, as well as the poetic structure and content of the Italian texts to which he set his music, most of which during this polyphonic period were taken from Petrarch's poetry. We discuss important historical and geopolitical situations that effected Monteverdi's compositions, as well as details of his personal life.