‘comico’ nella vocalità teatrale di Monteverdi”; Anna Maria Abert, “Mon-
teverdi e lo svilippo dell’opera”; Anna Mondolfi Bossarelli, “Ancora intorno al
codice napoletano della Incoronazione di Poppea”; and Hellmuth Christian
Wolff, “L’influsso di Monteverdi sull’opera veneziana.”Collections of Essays
1211.The Monteverdi Companion. Ed. Denis Arnold and Nigel Fortune. New York:
Norton, 1968. 328p. ISBN 0-393-33636-0. ML410 .M7 A75.
Eleven essays by various authors, including Robert Donington on Orfeo
(#1245) and Janet E. Beat, “Monteverdi and the Opera Orchestra of His
Time.” Index.
1212.The New Monteverdi Companion. Ed. Denis Arnold and Nigel Fortune. Lon-
don: Faber & Faber, 1985. 353p. ISBN 0-571-13148-4. ML410 .M77 N5.
An update of #1211 with most articles carried over, with revisions. The Don-
ington and Beat studies are omitted. Two new pieces deal with opera: Iain Fen-
lon, “The Mantuan Stage Works,” and Jane Glover, “The Venetian Operas.”
Denis Arnold and Nigel Fortune revised the bibliography they prepared for the
earlier volume. Index.- Harnoncourt, Nikolaus. Der musikalische Dialog: Gedanken zu Monteverdi,
Bach, und Mozart. Salzburg: Residenz, 1984. 304p. ISBN 3-7017-0372-8.
ML60 .H337.
A collection of short essays by Harnoncourt. The operas Orfeo, Il ritorno
d’Ulisse,and L’incoronazione di Poppeaare examined in terms of authentic
performance. Without footnotes or bibliography. - Chafe, Eric. Monteverdi’s Tonal Language.New York: Schirmer, 1992. xviii,
442p. ISBN 0-02-870495-9. ML410 .M77 C4.
Important essays by Chafe, on technical aspects of the compositions. There are
separate entries in this guide for studies on L’incoronazione di Poppea(#1239)
and Orfeo(#1244). Backnotes, valuable bibliography of some 150 items, title
index, general index.
Letters and Documents
1215.The Letters of Claudio Monteverdi. Trans. with introduction by Denis
Stevens. New York: Cambridge U.P., 1980. 443p. ISBN 0-05-212359-1.
ML410 .M7 A2 S82.
All the known letters, translated for the first time into English. (The standard
collection in Italian is by Domenico de’ Paoli, Claudio Monteverdi: Lettere,
dediche, e prefazioni[Rome, 1973].) Stevens covers the years 1601–1643 with
126 letters, notes, and comments. Points of difference in translation, or text,
between the present edition and previous versions of the letters are not gener-
ally clarified—or even mentioned. Index.Claudio Monteverdi 233