Women and Music in Sixteenth-Century Ferrara
Rethinks and retells the history of music in sixteenth-century Ferrara, putting women, of the court and convent, at the narrative centre
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
2018
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism
v.28 |
| Schlagworte: | Music Women musicians Music ; Social aspects ; Italy ; Ferrara ; History ; 16th century Women musicians ; Italy ; Ferrara ; History ; 16th century Music ; Italy ; Ferrara ; 16th century ; History and criticism Ferrara (Italy) ; Court and courtiers ; History ; 16th century |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (418 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Rethinks and retells the history of music in sixteenth-century Ferrara, putting women, of the court and convent, at the narrative centre Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of Figures -- List of Music Examples -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Music Prints and Translations -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Musica secreta -- Secret Histories: Ferrarese Women in Musicological Literature -- Secret Combinations: Putting the Histories Together -- Doing Music History -- 1 Ferrarese Convents and the Este in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century -- Music and Convent Life -- The Este and Ferrarese Convents at the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century -- The Este and the Convent of Corpus Domini -- The Musical Legacy of Caterina Vigri -- Suor Leonora d'Este -- The Voci Pari Motets of the 1540s and Their Ferrarese Context -- Performance Implications -- Scotto's Voci Pari Collection of 1563 -- 2 Courtly Women and Secular Music in Ferrara in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century -- Mid-Sixteenth-Century Musical Women: The Noblewoman -- Mid-Sixteenth-Century Musical Women: The Courtesan -- The Este Women and Music in the Mid-Sixteenth Century -- Music for the Noblewomen of Ercole II's Ferrara -- Bertoldo di Bertoldi and Laura d'Este -- 3 Princesses and Politics: The Este Women and Music in the 1550s -- The Marriage Negotiations for Anna -- Musical Echoes of the Negotiations in Early Works by Cipriano De Rore -- The Madrigali d'amore and the Madrigali de la Fama of 1548 -- Selene and Gli Antivalomeni: Giraldi's Didactic Spectacles -- Francesco Dalla Viola, Cipriano de Rore, and the Ferrarese Madrigal in the 1550s -- Traces of Ferrarese Song in Giaches de Wert's Primo libro de' madrigali a quattro voci of 1561 -- 4 Actresses and Ariosto: Spectacle and Song in the 1560s -- Berchem's Capriccio of 1561 -- The First Singing Ladies: Lucrezia Bendidio and Tarquinia Molza Singing Actresses and Ariostean Spectacle -- The New "New Music" -- A World Turned Upside Down -- 5 "Un modo di cantare molto diverso": Ferrara and the New Singing of the 1570s -- The Bendidio Sisters at Brescello in 1571 -- The Convents in the Early 1570s -- The Court in Recovery -- Leonora Sanvitale and the Farnese Connection -- Neapolitan Song Before the 1570s -- Ferrarese Courtly Music in the 1570s -- Bardi on De Rore: An Outsider's View of the Ferrarese Musical Legacy in the 1570s -- 6 Margherita's Arrival and the Convents in the First Half of the 1580s -- Convents and Music in the 1580s -- The Este Women and the Convents of Ferrara in the 1580s -- Musical Practice in San Vito in the 1580s -- 7 Musical Practices of the 1580s Concerto -- The Commemorative Volumes of the 1580s -- Lodovico Agostini's Il nuovo Echo (1583) -- Giaches de Wert's L'ottavo libro de madrigali a cinque voci (1586): The Apotheosis of the Concerto -- Traces of the Concerto's Performance Practice in the 1580s Repertoire -- Transposition -- Bass Lines and Accompaniment Style -- Ensemble Ornamentation -- Creating the Dramatic Scena -- 8 Ferrara's Final Chapter: Court and Convents in the 1590s -- A New Paradigm and an Old Danger -- The Ferrarese Convents in the 1590s -- The Ferrarese Convents and Civic Display -- Este Women and Ferrarese Music of the Mid-1590s -- The Death of Alfonso, and the Devolution of Ferrara -- 9 Afterlife in Mantua -- Margherita and the Convent of Sant'Orsola in Mantua -- Vincenzo Gonzaga, Giulio Thiene, and the Fate of Luzzaschi's Library -- Bibliography -- Principal Manuscript Sources -- Ferrara, Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea -- London, British Library -- Mantua, Biblioteca Comunale Teresiana -- Modena, Biblioteca Estense -- Primary Sources Printed Before 1750 -- Secondary Sources and Modern Editions -- General Index -- Index of Compositions |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (418 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781108648400 1108648401 9781107154070 1107154073 9781316650455 1316650456 |