Essays on Italian Poetry and Music in the Renaissance, 1350-1600

These essays illuminate the changing nature of text-music relationships from the time of Petrarch to Guarini and, in music, from the madrigals of Giovanni da Cascia to those of Gesualdo da Venosa. Haar traces a line of development from the stylized rhetoric of Trecento song through the popularizing trends of Quattrocento music and on to the union of verbal and musical cadence that marked the high Renaissance in sixteenth-century Italian music.Haar, James is the author of 'Essays on Italian Poetry and Music in the Renaissance, 1350-1600', published 1987 under ISBN 9780520053977 and ISBN 0520053974.