Monteverdian Gestures - Erasmus Seminar with Andrew Lawrence-King - Part 1

This is the first part of a seminar for Composers and Early Music Performers discussing Monteverdi's dramatic music.
In this part:
Context: the score is not the music
The past is a foreign country
Rhetoric
Monteverdi's compositorial concerns
Multi-authorship of early 'operas'
Monteverdi's order of composing
Recommended reading: Tim Carter 'Monteverdi's Musical Theatre: (Yale, 2002)
Part 1: Context & Rhetoric
• Monteverdian Gestures ...
Part 2: Text & Rhythm, Speech & Song
• Monteverdian Gestures ...
Part 3: Peri, Pepys & How to speak Shakespeare
• Monteverdian Gestures ...
Part 4: Gesture, Passion & the sound of music
• Monteverdian Gestures ...
See also:
The 'first opera': seven days with Monteverdi's Orfeo
• The 'first opera' - a ...
Created for the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre's MONTEVERDI MOSAIK project, involving Early Music students and young composers from Italy, Lithuania, Finland, Norway and Estonia.
Recorded at the Sibelius Academy, Finland. Post-production at Early Music Estonia.
Shared also with Early Music performers in Ukraine.