ABSTRACT
An accessible introduction to Monteverdi designed for the English general reader with limited knowledge of Italian music. Redresses the balance between secular and sacred music in the 1975 edition with greater attention given to church music. Divides Monteverdi’s biography into chapters on Cremona, Mantua, and Venice; chapters on each major genre of production. Much of the information is now superseded, but the volume remains useful for insight into scholarship on Monteverdi from the 1960s.
