Guarini's 'Il pastor fido' and the Madrigal: Voicing the Pastoral in Late Renaissance Italy

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Seth Coluzzi

Guarini's 'Il pastor fido' and the Madrigal

Voicing the Pastoral in Late Renaissance Italy

Seth Coluzzi

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Routledge
19 January 2023

Theatre Studies; Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600); Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Literary studies: plays & playwrights

Battista Guarini’s pastoral tragicomedy Il pastor fido (1589) began its life as a play, but soon was transformed through numerous musical settings by prominent composers of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Through the many lives of this work, this book explores what happens when a lover’s lament is transplanted from the theatrical stage to the courtly chamber, from speech to song, and from a single speaking character to an ensemble of singers, shedding new light on early modern literary and musical culture.

From the play’s beginnings in manuscripts, private readings, and aborted stage productions in the 1580s and 1590s, through the gradual decline of Pastor fido madrigals in the 1640s, this book examines how this widely read yet controversial text became the center of a lasting and prolific music tradition. Using a new integrative system of musical-textual analysis based on sixteenth-century theory, Seth Coluzzi demonstrates how composers responded not only to the sentiments, imagery, and form of the play’s speeches, but also to subtler details of Guarini’s verse. Viewing the musical history of Guarini’s work as an integral part of the play’s roles in the domains of theater, literature, and criticism, this book brings a new perspective to the late Italian madrigal, the play, and early modern patronage and readership across a diverse geographical and temporal frame.

By: Seth Coluzzi
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 843g
ISBN: 9781032423852
ISBN 10: 1032423854
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 19 January 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Seth J. Coluzzi is an Assistant Professor of Music at Colgate University and a scholar of the music, poetry, and culture of late-Renaissance Italy. His work focuses on issues of analysis, mode, interpretation, and text-music relations in the Italian madrigal and has appeared in Journal of Musicology, Music and Letters, Music Theory Spectrum, Early Music, Studi musicali, and other journals and collections.