AMS-NE Winter Chapter Meeting February 20, 2016 Fuller Music Center , Rm. 021 The Hartt School 9:45-10:15 Refreshments and Registration Morning Session 10:15 Welcome 10:20 Why Striggio W as Not on Monteverdi’s Side: Orfeo (1607), Academy Culture, and the Staging of the “ Artusi C ontroversy” Joel Schwindt (The Boston Conservatory) Musicologists have addressed various aspects of the "Monteverdi-Artusi Controversy," including compositional philosophy (Palisca 1985, Carter 1992, Ossi 2003, etc. ), court politics (Siegele 1994), gender (Cusick 1993), and religious philosophy (Carter 2012). Yet to be considered, however, is how certain academic discourses that paralleled this polemic were essentially "staged" through the production of Orfeo in 1607 for the Mantuan Accademia degli Invaghiti (of which librettist Alessandro Striggio the Younger was a member). The academy members' writings on music—including a long dichiarazone ...
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