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Singing Petrarch in the Cinquecento: Embodied Reading and the Italian Madrigal

Hedrick, Thomas A., IIIThe Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York2024

… examines how composers of sixteenth-century Italian madrigals highlighted poetic line rhythm, repeated vowel sounds (or assonance), and word repetition in figures of speech—all elements of the verse that have been previously overlooked by scholars, who have traditionally focused on musical …

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