Volume 39, Number 7 · April 9, 1992
Lagoon Tunes
By Robert Craft
Five Centuries of Music in Venice
by H.C. Robbins Landon, by John Julius Norwich
Schirmer, 200 pp., $29.95
Most of the illustrations in Five Centuries of Music in Venice evoke sonorities, as does the cover showing two of Carpaccio's clamant trumpeters miraculously walking on water. Many of the pictures, some 175 in black and white and forty pages of them in color, portray musicians playing instruments. What the book lacks is an insert of a tape or compact disc of Gabrieli canzonas, Monteverdi madrigals, and Vivaldi concertos.
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