Music and Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Mantua: Volume 1
Title | Music and Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Mantua: Volume 1 PDF eBook |
Author | Iain Fenlon |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2008-10-30 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780521088336 |
Viewed traditionally, the history of sixteenth-century Mantuan music is almost a catalogue of some of the most distinguished composers of the age, from Tromboncino and Cara, via Jacquet of Mantua, to Wert, Palestrina, Marenzio, Pallavicino, Gastoldi, Rossi and Monteverdi. The remarkable achievements of composers under Gonzaga patronage, practically synonymous with Mantuan patronage during this period, are treated here in their social context. The arguments proceed not just from the music itself, but from detailed examination of archival sources, from which Dr Fenlon reconstructs employment patterns and describes the social structure and institutional life of the city. The aim of the book is to show how the patterns of patronage, and music and musicians, reflect and illuminate the temperaments and prime preoccupations of successive rulers. The book contains a substantial appendix of unpublished archival documents, a small proportion only of the scholarly and comparative sources on which the study is based.
Music and Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Mantua: Volume 2
Title | Music and Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Mantua: Volume 2 PDF eBook |
Author | Iain Fenlon |
Publisher | CUP Archive |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN |
Viewed traditionally, the history of sixteenth-century Mantuan music is almost a catalogue of some of the most distinguished composers of the age, from Tromboncino and Cara, via Jacquet of Mantua, to Wert, Palestrina, Marenzio, Pallavicino, Gastoldi, Rossi and Monteverdi. The remarkable achievements of composers under Gonzaga patronage, practically synonymous with Mantuan patronage during this period, are treated here in their social context. The arguments proceed not just from the music itself, but from detailed examination of archival sources, from which Dr Fenlon reconstructus employment patterns and describes the social structure and institutional life of the city. The aim of the book is to show how the patterns of patronage, and music and musicians, reflect and illuminate the temperaments and prime preoccupations of successive rulers. The book contains a substantial appendix of unpublished archival documents, a small proportion only of the scholarly and comparative sources on which the study is based. This study will appeal to musicologists, as well as to students and teachers interested in the cultures of early modern Italy. A selection of music, illustrating in various ways the system of patronage which brought it into being and enabled its survival, will be published in a companion volume.
Music and Patronage in Sixteenth-century Mantua
Title | Music and Patronage in Sixteenth-century Mantua PDF eBook |
Author | Iain Fenlon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 151 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Women and Music in Sixteenth-Century Ferrara
Title | Women and Music in Sixteenth-Century Ferrara PDF eBook |
Author | Laurie Stras |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 2018-09-27 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1107154073 |
Rethinks and retells the history of music in sixteenth-century Ferrara, putting women, of the court and convent, at the narrative centre.
Music and Culture in Late Renaissance Italy
Title | Music and Culture in Late Renaissance Italy PDF eBook |
Author | Iain Fenlon |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2002-12-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780198164449 |
Explores the role of music in the cultural, religious, and political upheavals of late Renaissance Italy, revealing how musical activity of all kinds was instrumentalized by those in power. Italian culture did not lose its vigour after 1530, but underwent a transformation.
Music at the Gonzaga Court in Mantua
Title | Music at the Gonzaga Court in Mantua PDF eBook |
Author | Donald C. Sanders |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 213 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 073916726X |
In Music at the Gonzaga Court in Mantua, Donald C. Sanders examines the history of musical composition and performance at the northern Italian court of Mantua from the fifteenth century to the seventeenth century. Music is discussed in the context of the visual art, poetry, and theater that graced the court and of the Gonzaga family's interaction with the major European historical figures of the era.
A Companion to Music in Sixteenth-Century Venice
Title | A Companion to Music in Sixteenth-Century Venice PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 576 |
Release | 2017-12-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004358307 |
This book offers an overview of all facets of musical life in sixteenth-century Venice. It addresses the city’s institutions (churches, confraternities, and academies) against the background of public and private occasions of music making. Supported by a generous collection of archival, literary, and iconographical sources, it treats both ceremonial life in the Serenissima and private forms of patronage. The Companion also addresses the dense web of musical activity (from chapel masters and singers to instrumentalists and instrument makers to music printers and theorists) and the rich variety of styles and musical genres (the frottola, the madrigal, motets and masses, instrumental music, polychoral music, Venetian-language polyphony), broadening the geographical perspective beyond the Veneto to Istria and Dalmatia. Contributors are Rodolfo Baroncini, Sherri Bishop, Bonnie J. Blackburn, David Bryant, Ivano Cavallini, Paolo Da Col, Daniel Donnelly, Rebecca Edwards, Iain Fenlon, Jonathan Glixon, Don Harrán (†), Jeffrey Kurtzman, Giulio M. Ongaro, Francesco Passadore, Elena Quaranta, Katelijne Schiltz, Eleanor Selfridge-Field, and Giovanni Zanovello.