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In this boldly innovative book, renowned musicologist Susan McClary presents an illuminating cultural interpretation of the Italian madrigal, one of the most influential repertories of the Renaissance. A genre that sought to produce simulations in sound of complex interiorities, the madrigal introduced into music a vast range of new signifying practices: musical representations of emotions, desire, gender stereotypes, reason, madness, tensions between mind and body, and much more. In doing so, it not only greatly expanded the expressive agendas of European music but also recorded certain assum

Madrigals, Italian --- Music and language. --- Music theory --- Musical form --- Analysis, appreciation. --- History --- Music and language --- Musique et langage --- Muziek en taal --- Madrigaux italiens --- Formes musicales --- Théorie musicale --- Histoire --- Music --- Language and music --- Language and languages --- Form, Musical --- Italian madrigals --- Madrigals (Music), Italian --- Analysis, appreciation --- Theory --- Madrigals [Italian ] --- Italy --- 16th century