Introduction

 

1. Monteverdi, seconda prattica and the doctrine of affections (teoria degli affetti)

    1.1 Cantare con grazia as common denominator of the early vocal treatises

    1.2 The current problem of interpretation - Il Lamento d' Arianna

 

2. A bridge between old and new 

    2.1 The rediscovery of Monteverdi at the beginning of the 20th century, starting from Malipiero

    2.2 New musical languages after the melodramma: the voice as main focus

 

3. Luciano Berio and the vocal gesture

    3.1 The poetics

    3.2 Lucian Berio and Claudio Monteverdi

    3.3 Cathy Berberian and the voice as a laboratory of sounds

 

4. La pratica degli affetti: seconda prattica and poetics of gesture in comparison

   Lamento d'Arianna-Avendo gran disio (video example)


Conclusions

 

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