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Nino Pirrotta and Elena Povoledo. Music and Theatre from Poliziano to Monteverdi. Tr. Eales Karen. (Cambridge Studies in Music.) New York-Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. 41 pls. + xi + 392 pp. $57.50

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Nino Pirrotta and Elena Povoledo. Music and Theatre from Poliziano to Monteverdi. Tr. Eales Karen. (Cambridge Studies in Music.) New York-Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. 41 pls. + xi + 392 pp. $57.50

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Anthony Newcomb
Anthony Newcomb*
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University of California, Berkeley
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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , Spring 1984 , pp. 109 - 113
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1984

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References

1 Cf. the review by Stuart Reiner in Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Librarians Association, 28 (1972), 424.

2 Nino, Pirrotta, Li due Orfei (Turin, 1975). Saggi, 556.Google Scholar

3 Die Musikforschung, 25 (1972), 382-85.

4 Although Elena Povoleda's series of essays have been well received, this reviewer is less competent to judge them and will concentrate in the ensuing comments on Pirrotta's contributions, which make up the bulk of the book.

5 Nino Pirrotta, E.g., “Novelty and Renewal in Italy: 1300-1600.” Studien zur Tradition in derMusik: Kurt von Fischer zum 60. Geburtstag (Munich, 1973), 49–63.Google Scholar

6 It does, nonetheless, appear odd that the translator, who struggled so courageously with the poetic texts quoted within the main body of the text, left untranslated the texts of the musical examples.