Music At The Court Of Mantua 1450 1540

Author : William F. Prizer
Publisher : Gower Publishing Company, Limited
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0754659852

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Music at the Court of Mantua, 1450-1540 by William F. Prizer Pdf

Summary: The court of Mantua, in northern Italy, was one of the most important centers of Italian music from the late fifteenth through the early seventeenth centuries, from the rise of the first written secular music of the Italian Renaissance through the time of Claudio Monteverdi. Based on newly uncovered documents, this collection of essays focuses on the beginnings of an active musical life there under the Marchesa Isabella d'Este (1474-1539) and her husband the Marchese Francesco Gonzaga (1466-1519). It considers the various genres of music at court-vocal, instrumental, sacred and seculartheir sources, the musicians at court, and the patronage of music by the ruling family. Particular emphasis is given to the frottola, the chief secular song of northern Italy, and to Isabella herself as important patron and avid performer.

Author : Vlado Kotnik
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781527532298

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Small Places, Operatic Issues by Vlado Kotnik Pdf

This book details original case studies that represent five different social positions or characterisations of opera: namely, opera as social showcase from Bayreuth (1748), social distinction from Ljubljana (1887), social conflict from Brno (1920), social status from Mantua (1999) and social manifest from Belgrade (2005). These positions, which indicate opera’s social diversity in local, regional, provincial, and peripheral terms, as well as its social mutuality in international, transnational, global, or metropolitan terms, generally promote the idea of opera as a social venue, cultural practice, theatrical scene, lyrical site, musical place, artistic experience, or transgenerational phenomenon through which people not only produce and consume the art of music, theatre, and spectacle, but also show off their lifestyle as well as economic, social, cultural and symbolic determination, identification, and structuration. The selected case studies of peripheral opera worlds are different in terms of the chosen places, times, and problems they tackle, but they all have something meaningful in common. They convincingly address the idea that opera peripheries produce compellingly powerful meanings and messages of their different social worlds. Through its analysis, this book creates a fruitful interpretative encounter of the academic domains of opera studies, historical sociology, cultural sociology and social and cultural anthropology.

Author : Donald C. Sanders
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780739167267

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Music at the Gonzaga Court in Mantua by Donald C. Sanders Pdf

Beginning in the second half of the fifteenth century, under the patronage of the Gonzaga family, the northern Italian city of Mantua became a vibrant center for visual art, theatre, and music. The performance at the Gonzaga court of Poliziano's Fabula di Orfeo, around 1480, marked the beginning of secular music theatre. The use of musical numbers within the drama anticipated the beginnings of opera at Florence a century later, as well as the first masterpiece of the genre, Monteverdi's La favola d'Orfeo at Mantua in 1607. Mantua reached the zenith of its artistic distinction during the reign of Duke Vincenzo I, between 1587 and 1612. During this time, Wert and Gastoldi were joined at the court by the important Jewish composer Salamone Rossi and, most notably, by Monteverdi. The premieres of his Orfeo and Arisanna made the Gonzaga court, for that brief period, the most important center in the development of opera. In Music at the Gonzaga Court in Mantua, Donald C. Sanders discusses musical composition at the court in the context of the brilliant visual art that provided such a conducive environment. Sanders also traces the history of this very colorful family and their relationships with the emperors, kings, and popes who shaped modern Europe. Part history, part musicology, Sanders' analysis spans the fifteenth century through the seventeenth century, filling informative gaps with details essential for students in courses on Renaissance or Baroque music, or in more specialized courses on madrigal, opera, or liturgical music. Music at the Gonzaga Court in Mantua is also important reading for knowledgeable musical amateurs and anyone with interest in Italian history and arts.

Author : Sean Gallagher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351549370

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Secular Renaissance Music by Sean Gallagher Pdf

Secular music of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries encompasses an extraordinarily wide range of works and practices: courtly love songs, music for civic festivities, instrumental music, entertainments provided by minstrels, the unwritten traditions of solo singing, and much else. This collection of essays addresses many of these practices, with a focus on polyphonic settings of vernacular texts, examining their historical and stylistic contexts, their transmission in written and printed sources, questions of performance, and composers approaches to text setting. Essays have been selected to reflect the wide range of topics that have occupied scholars in recent decades, and taken together, they point to the more general significance of secular music within a broad complex of cultural practices and institutions.

Author : Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892367856

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Luxury Arts of the Renaissance by Marina Belozerskaya Pdf

Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.

Author : Lynette Bowring,Rebecca Cypess,Liza Malamut
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253060075

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Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy by Lynette Bowring,Rebecca Cypess,Liza Malamut Pdf

Musical culture in Jewish communities in early modern Italy was much more diverse than researchers originally thought. An interdisciplinary reassessment, Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy evaluates the social, cultural, political, economic, and religious circumstances that shaped this community, especially in light of the need to recognize individual experiences within minority populations. Contributors draw from rich materials, topics, and approaches as they explore the inherently diverse understandings of music in daily life, the many ways that Jewish communities conceived of music, and the reception of and responses to Jewish musical culture. Highlighting the multifaceted experience of music within Jewish communities, Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy sheds new light on the place of music in complex, previously misunderstood environments.

Author : David M. Guion
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781461655909

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A History of the Trombone by David M. Guion Pdf

A History of the Trombone, the first title in the new series American Wind Band, is a comprehensive account of the development of the trombone from its initial form as a 14th-century Medieval trumpet to its alterations in the 15th century; from its marginalized use in a particular Renaissance ensemble to its acceptance in various kinds of artistic and popular music in the 19th and 20th centuries. David M. Guion accesses new and important primary source materials to present the full sweep of the instrument's history, placing particular emphasis on the people who played the instrument, the music they performed, and the relevant cultural contexts. After a general overview, the material is presented in two main sections: the first traces the development of the trombone itself and examines the literature written about it, and the second investigates the history of performance on the instrument—the ensembles it participated in, the occasions in which it took part, the people who played it, and the social, intellectual, political, economic, and technological forces that impinged on that history. Guion analyzes the trombone's place in countries all over the world and in many styles of music, such as art, opera, popular, and world music. An appendix of transcriptions of selected primary source documents, including translations, and a comprehensive bibliography round out this important reference. Fully illustrated with more than 80 images, A History of the Trombone appeals not just to trombonists but to students, scholars, and fans of all musical instruments.

Author : Ralph P. Locke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107012370

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Music and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart by Ralph P. Locke Pdf

Ralph P. Locke provides fresh insights into Western culture's increasing awareness of ethnic Otherness during the years 1500-1800.

Author : Ann Harrold,Graham Lea
Publisher : London : Music Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Classification
ISBN : UOM:39015021666071

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Musaurus by Ann Harrold,Graham Lea Pdf

Author : Victor Coelho,Keith Polk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107145801

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Instrumentalists and Renaissance Culture, 1420-1600 by Victor Coelho,Keith Polk Pdf

This is the first in-depth study in any language exploring the vast cultural range of instrumental music during the Renaissance.

Author : Waldo Selden Pratt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Music
ISBN : UGA:32108029730119

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The New Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians by Waldo Selden Pratt Pdf

Author : Gaetana Marrone,Paolo Puppa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2256 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135455309

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Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies by Gaetana Marrone,Paolo Puppa Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies is a two-volume reference book containing some 600 entries on all aspects of Italian literary culture. It includes analytical essays on authors and works, from the most important figures of Italian literature to little known authors and works that are influential to the field. The Encyclopedia is distinguished by substantial articles on critics, themes, genres, schools, historical surveys, and other topics related to the overall subject of Italian literary studies. The Encyclopedia also includes writers and subjects of contemporary interest, such as those relating to journalism, film, media, children's literature, food and vernacular literatures. Entries consist of an essay on the topic and a bibliographic portion listing works for further reading, and, in the case of entries on individuals, a brief biographical paragraph and list of works by the person. It will be useful to people without specialized knowledge of Italian literature as well as to scholars.

Author : Roy P. Domenico
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313016509

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The Regions of Italy by Roy P. Domenico Pdf

Through most of their history, Italians have identified more with their own locales than with what is now known as Italy. This comprehensive reference allows readers to view the land as its denizens have for centuries--regionally. Domenico superbly surveys the regional and provincial characteristics and culture of the 20 regions, including economy, cuisine, history, recent politics, and arts. This is the only single general reference volume in English on Italy's regions and will be highly in demand by teachers, students of Italian language and culture, and travelers. Italy's enormous contributions to western civilization continue to make it a cultural and economic powerhouse and a top tourist destination. The Regions of Italy succinctly conveys the formidable richness of the whole through its parts, with a user-friendly format that makes it easy to glean the important information on the area of interest. A chronology, glossary, and wide selection of photos accompany the text.

Author : Anna Maria Busse Berger,Jesse Rodin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 1108791883

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The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music by Anna Maria Busse Berger,Jesse Rodin Pdf

Through forty-five creative and concise essays by an international team of authors, this Cambridge History brings the fifteenth century to life for both specialists and general readers. Combining the best qualities of survey texts and scholarly literature, the book offers authoritative overviews of central composers, genres, and musical institutions as well as new and provocative reassessments of the work concept, the boundaries between improvisation and composition, the practice of listening, humanism, musical borrowing, and other topics. Multidisciplinary studies of music and architecture, feasting, poetry, politics, liturgy, and religious devotion rub shoulders with studies of compositional techniques, musical notation, music manuscripts, and reception history. Generously illustrated with figures and examples, this volume paints a vibrant picture of musical life in a period characterized by extraordinary innovation and artistic achievement.

Author : Jacqueline Herald
Publisher : London : Bell & Hyman ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Design
ISBN : UOM:39015046344902

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Renaissance Dress in Italy 1400-1500 by Jacqueline Herald Pdf