L'Aminta and Il Pastor Fido

Torquato Tasso and Giovanni Battista Guarini

Verlag: Dalla Tipografia di Commercio, Milano, 1824

Beschreibung

Poems from two of Italy's great Renaissance poets. No poet was more influential on music history in the late Renaissance and Baroque eras than Guarini. While Guarini's work may be seen as lacking the deep feeling and sentiment of Torquato Tasso, his rival at the Estensi court, it was precisely this quality which commended it to musical setting at a time when excessive emotionalism had become unfashionable. Tasso's Aminta is a pastoral drama of very simple plot, but of exquisite lyrical charm. It appeared at the moment when music, under Palestrina's impulse, was becoming the main art of Italy. The honeyed melodies and sensuous melancholy of Aminta exactly suited and interpreted the spirit of its age. Its influence, in opera and cantata, was felt through two successive centuries. Binders label of R Carswell and Son, Belfast to front pastedown. In a half calf binding. Externally sound, with just slight wear to the leather. Internally, firmly bound. Bright with scattered spotting throughout, and just a few small tidemarks. Very Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers FGN9-D-13

Bibliografische Details

Titel: L'Aminta and Il Pastor Fido

Verlag: Dalla Tipografia di Commercio, Milano

Erscheinungsdatum: 1824

Einband: Leather

Illustrator: None

Zustand: Very Good

Art des Buches: book