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Author Cypess, Rebecca, author.

Title Curious and modern inventions : instrumental music as discovery in Galileo's Italy / Rebecca Cypess
Published Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016

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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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 14, 2016)
Subject Marini, Biagio, 1597?-1665. Affetti musicali.
Farina, Carlo, approximately 1600-approximately 1640.
Frescobaldi, Girolamo, 1583-1643
Castello, Dario, active 1621-1644.
SUBJECT Castello, Dario, active 1621-1644 fast
Farina, Carlo, approximately 1600-approximately 1640 fast
Frescobaldi, Girolamo, 1583-1643 fast
Subject Instrumental music -- Italy -- 17th century -- History and criticism
Music -- Italy -- 17th century -- History and criticism
MUSIC -- Musical Instruments -- General.
MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Band & Orchestra.
Instrumental music
Music
Italy
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780226319582
022631958X