Divining the Oracle: Monteverdi's Seconda Prattica.(Book Review)

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Divining the Oracle: Monteverdi's Seconda Prattica. By Massimo Ossi. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. [xviii, 280 p. ISBN 0-226-63883-9. $60.] Music examples, illustrations, index, bibliography.

In his fifth book of madrigals (1605), Claudio Monteverdi announced his treatise Seconda prattica, overo Perfettione della moderna musica in response to Giovanni Maria Artusi's attacks included in two works published respectively five and two years earlier. The "Artusi-Monteverdi controversy," as Claude Palisca named it, continued with the famous defense written by the ...

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