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Singing to the lyre in Renaissance Italy : memory, performance, and oral poetry
- Title
- Singing to the lyre in Renaissance Italy : memory, performance, and oral poetry / Blake Wilson.
- Author
- Wilson, Blake McDowell
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- ©2020
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- Description
- xii, 473 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
- Summary
- "A primary mode for the creation and dissemination of poetry in Renaissance Italy was the oral practice of singing and improvising verse to the accompaniment of a stringed instrument. Singing to the Lyre is the first comprehensive study of this ubiquitous practice, which was cultivated by performers ranging from popes, princes, and many artists, to professionals of both mercantile and humanist background. Common to all was a strong degree of mixed orality based on a synergy between writing and the oral operations of memory, improvisation, and performance. As a cultural practice deeply rooted in language and supported by ancient precedent, cantare ad lyram (singing to the lyre) is also a reflection of Renaissance cultural priorities, including the status of vernacular poetry, the study and practice of rhetoric, the oral foundations of humanist education, and the performative culture of the courts reflected in theatrical presentations and Castiglione's Il cortegiano"--
- Subjects
- Vocal music
- Italian poetry
- Italy
- Folk poetry, Italian
- Humanism
- Folk poetry, Italian > History and criticism
- Vocal music > Italy > 15th century > History and criticism
- Vocal music > Italy > 500-1400 > History and criticism
- Italian poetry > To 1400 > History and criticism
- To 1559
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Italian poetry > 15th century > History and criticism
- Italy > Civilization > 1268-1559
- Humanism > Italy
- Civilization
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-460) and index.
- Contents
- Part I : The canterino tradition. Early history : Ioculatores and Giullari ; The trecento canterino ; The canterino in the fifteenth century -- Part II : Cantare ad lyrum : the humanist tradition. Florence : from canterino to cantare ad lyram ; Cantare ad lyram and humanist education ; Cantare ad lyram in the courts ; Rome : Cantare ad lyram at the summit ; Epilogue : The sixteenth century.
- Call Number
- JMF 20-108
- ISBN
- 9781108488075
- 1108488072
- 9781108768887 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019028593
- OCLC
- 1101039412
- Author
- Wilson, Blake McDowell, author.
- Title
- Singing to the lyre in Renaissance Italy : memory, performance, and oral poetry / Blake Wilson.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-460) and index.
- Chronological Term
- To 1559
- Other Form:
- Online version: Wilson, Blake, 1952- Singing to the lyre in renaissance italy 1. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019. 9781108768887 (DLC) 2019028594
- Research Call Number
- JMF 20-108