Text Painting, or Coincidence? Treatment of Height-Related Imagery in the Madrigals of Luca Marenzio

Text painting is a defining characteristic of the sixteenth-century madrigal style, especially in association with references to height. Whereas composers cannot have given musical illustration to every such reference contained within the text of a madrigal, the question of whether or not the music...

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Main Author: Derek R. Strykowski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Ohio State University Libraries 2017-01-01
Series:Empirical Musicology Review
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v11i2.4903