Women and Music in Sixteenth-Century Ferrara - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Music in Sixteenth-Century Ferrara write by Laurie Stras. This book was released on 2018-09-27. Women and Music in Sixteenth-Century Ferrara available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The musica secreta or concerto delle dame of Duke Alfonso II d'Este, an ensemble of virtuoso female musicians that performed behind closed doors at the castello in Ferrara, is well-known to music history. Their story is often told by focussing on the Duke's obsessive patronage and the exclusivity of their music. This book examines the music-making of four generations of princesses, noblewomen and nuns in Ferrara, as performers, creators, and patrons from a new perspective. It rethinks the relationships between polyphony and song, sacred and secular, performer and composer, patron and musician, court and convent. With new archival evidence and analysis of music, people, and events over the course of the century, from the role of the princess nun musician, Leonora d'Este, to the fate of the musica secreta's jealously guarded repertoire, this radical approach will appeal to musicians and scholars alike.
The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music
The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music write by Anna Maria Busse Berger. This book was released on 2015-07-16. The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Nuns Behaving Badly
Nuns Behaving Badly - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nuns Behaving Badly write by Craig A. Monson. This book was released on 2010-11-15. Nuns Behaving Badly available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Witchcraft. Arson. Going AWOL. Some nuns in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy strayed far from the paradigms of monastic life. Cloistered in convents, subjected to stifling hierarchy, repressed, and occasionally persecuted by their male superiors, these women circumvented authority in sometimes extraordinary ways. But tales of their transgressions have long been buried in the Vatican Secret Archive. That is, until now. In Nuns Behaving Badly, Craig A. Monson resurrects forgotten tales and restores to life the long-silent voices of these cloistered heroines. Here we meet nuns who dared speak out about physical assault and sexual impropriety (some real, some imagined). Others were only guilty of misjudgment or defacing valuable artwork that offended their sensibilities. But what unites the women and their stories is the challenges they faced: these were women trying to find their way within the Catholicism of their day and through the strict limits it imposed on them. Monson introduces us to women who were occasionally desperate to flee cloistered life, as when an entire community conspired to torch their convent and be set free. But more often, he shows us nuns just trying to live their lives. When they were crossed—by powerful priests who claimed to know what was best for them—bad behavior could escalate from mere troublemaking to open confrontation. In resurrecting these long-forgotten tales and trials, Monson also draws attention to the predicament of modern religious women, whose “misbehavior”—seeking ordination as priests or refusing to give up their endowments to pay for priestly wrongdoing in their own archdioceses—continues even today. The nuns of early modern Italy, Monson shows, set the standard for religious transgression in their own age—and beyond.
Music, Myth and Story in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Music, Myth and Story in Medieval and Early Modern Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music, Myth and Story in Medieval and Early Modern Culture write by Katherine Butler. This book was released on 2019. Music, Myth and Story in Medieval and Early Modern Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The complex relationship between myths and music is here investigated.
Renaissance Polyphony
Renaissance Polyphony - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Renaissance Polyphony write by Fabrice Fitch. This book was released on 2020-08-27. Renaissance Polyphony available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This engaging study introduces Renaissance polyphony to a modern audience. It helps readers of all ages and levels of experience make sense of what they are hearing. How does Renaissance music work? How is a piece typical of its style and type; or, if it is exceptional, what makes it so? The makers of polyphony were keenly aware of the specialized nature of their craft. How is this reflected in the music they wrote, and how were they regarded by their patrons and audiences? Through a combination of detailed, nuanced appreciation of musical style and a lucid overview of current debates, this book offers a glimpse of meanings behind and beyond the notes, be they playful or profound. It will enhance the listening experience of students, performers and music lovers alike.
