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Roseen Giles

Roseen Giles

Mrs. Alexander Hehmeyer Associate Professor of Music
Music
roseen.giles@duke.edu
Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708
060 Biddle Music Building, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications

Monteverdi’s Secretum: Petrarch and the Selva Morale e Spirituale (1640/41)

Journal Article I Tatti Studies · March 1, 2025 Featured Publication Full text Cite

Lettera amorosa Musical Love-Letters in Early Modern Italy

Book · February 28, 2025 Featured Publication Musical settings of love letters rekindled a complex kind of vocality which was rooted in the letters of antiquity and endured in the musical sub-genre of the lettera amorosa. ... Full text Cite

Monteverdi and the Marvellous: Poetry, Sound, and Representation

Book · January 1, 2023 Featured Publication The marvellous, a key concept in literary debates at the turn of the seventeenth century, involved sensory and perspectival transformation, a rhetoric built on the unexpected, contradictory, and thought-provoking. The composer Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643 ... Full text Cite

Giambattista Marino’s L’Adone: A Drama of Madrigals

Journal Article Italianist · January 1, 2020 Featured Publication Giambattista Marino’s L’Adone (1623) is the longest poem written in the Italian language. Exceeding even Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata (1581) in length, L’Adone lacks the most central characteristic of epic poetry: a coherent narrative. As the quin ... Full text Cite

'A Natural Voice?'

Journal Article Cambridge Opera Journal · 2018 Featured Publication Link to item Cite

Physicality and Devotion in Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber’s Rosary Sonatas

Journal Article Yale Journal of Music and Religion · 2018 Featured Publication Link to item Cite

Monteverdi, Marino and the aesthetic of meraviglia

Journal Article Early Music · December 11, 2017 Featured Publication Full text Cite

The Inaudible Music of the Renaissance: From Marsilio Ficino to Robert Fludd

Journal Article Renaissance and Reformation · 2016 Featured Publication Open Access Link to item Cite

Melismas in the Office for Thomas Becket of Canterbury

Chapter · 2010 Featured Publication FOREWORD t is a great pleasure to see in print this volume of essays which commemorates the Conference oTraditions in Western Plainchant" hosted by the Gregorian Institute of Canada (GIC) at McMaster University in August 2009. ... Cite

Music Collectorship in the Renaissance

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"Listening to the Unexpected: Monteverdi and the Marvellous"

Other Fifteen Eighty-Four: Academic Perspectives from Cambridge University Press Link to item Cite

"A Melancholy Skeleton"

Other The Devil’s Tale: Dispatches from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library Link to item Cite

"Monteverdi Turns 450"

Other Oxford University Press’s Academic Insights for the Thinking World Link to item Cite