Monteverdi and the Stile Concitato: a warrior poetics in the Eight Book of Madrigals of 1638

Author(s)

Vicente Casanova de Almeida

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA/SBD)
• Defense date: 2014-05-29

Examining board members

Monica Isabel Lucas; Paulo Mugayar Kühl; Marcello Stasi

• Advisor: Monica Isabel Lucas

Abstract

The present work is an investigation about Claudio Monteverdi\'s (1567-1643) Eight Book of Madrigals of 1638, offered to the Sacre and Cesarean Majesty of the Emperor Ferdinand III, ascended to the Ocident high throne in the year 1637. We trace the work historical context and the questions about its publication and dedicatory. We present an analysis of its preface according to the rethoric prescriptions of the demonstrative or epidictic genre which reveals significant discoursive keys and tópoi to the comprehension of the ethical and pathetical matter in music. These questions directly affect Monteverdi\'s performatic guidelines in his stile concitato, a musical procedure found inside the Madrigali Guerrieri. We also do an exegesis of the poetic texts of the madrigals where is revealed the warrior and militant Eros figuration conceived in Propertius and Ovid\'s elegies as well as in the amatory emblem books of XVI and XVII centuries. Finally, we intend to demonstrate that the stile concitato and its procedures are embellishment devices of the affects of the poetic texts in the madrigals, artfully managed in the composer music. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 12/01219-3 - Monteverdi and the Stile Concitato: a warrior poetic in the Eighth Madrigals Book of 1638
• Grantee: Vicente Casanova de Almeida
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master