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Article: Music and Women of the Commedia dell'arte in the Late Sixteenth Century.(Book Review)
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Music and Women of the Commedia dell'arte in the Late Sixteenth Century. By Anne MacNeil. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. [xii, 360 p. ISBN: 0-19-816689-3. $85.] Music examples, illustrations, chronology, documents, bibliography, index.
The semi-improvised dramatic tradition known as the "commedia dell'arte" has long been mentioned in passing in musical narratives of early modern Italy, especially in the context of early operatic history. Systematic investigation of the interactions between the comici and musical life has been lacking, however, and Anne MacNeil's study opens an invaluable new window onto the fluid interplay of text and ...