The Florentine Camerata: Documentary Studies and Translations
Hardcover
1989 · New Haven and London
by Palisca, Claude V.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1989. Hardcover. VG- (Book is slightly bent; dj has mild edge wear; stamp from previous owner on front flyleaf; otherwise clean.). Navy blue cloth, gilt letters on spine, cream & gray illus. dust jacket, 234 pp., 5 BW plates. "The Florentine Camerata, an informal interdisciplinary academy that met at the palace of Giovanni Bardi in Florence in the latter part of the sixteenth century, was one of the most influential such groups in music history. [This book] presents a collection of documents associated with the group and provides extensive introductory commentary and notes for each one. The texts are presented in their original Italian or Latin and, for the first time, in complete English translation." (dj). (Inventory #: 147361)