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Music in golden-age Florence, 1250-1750 : from the priorate of the guilds to the end of the Medici grand duchy
- Title
- Music in golden-age Florence, 1250-1750 : from the priorate of the guilds to the end of the Medici grand duchy / Anthony M. Cummings.
- Author
- Cummings, Anthony M.
- Publication
- Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 2023.
- ©2023
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Details
- Description
- xviii, 485 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), music; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Florence is justly celebrated as one of the world's most important cities. It enjoys mythic status and occupies an enviable place in the historical imagination. But its music-historical importance is less well understood than it should be. If Florence was the city of Dante, Michelangelo, and Galileo, it was also the birthplace of the madrigal, opera, and the piano. This is the only book of its kind, a comprehensive account of music in Florence from the late Middle Ages until the end of the Medici dynasty in the mid-eighteenth century. It recounts the principal developments in the history of Florence's contributions to music and how music was heard and cultivated in the city, from civic and religious institutions to private patronage and the academies. Scholars from sister disciplines and a general readership interested in the history and culture of Florence will find this book an invaluable complement to studies of the art, literature, and political thought of the late-medieval and early-modern eras and the quasi-legendary figures in the Florentine cultural pantheon"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [433]-466) and index.
- Contents
- Music in late-medieval Florence : the duecento and trecento -- Music and the ecclesiastical and political organization of the late-medieval city -- The duecento -- The trecento -- Music in Renaissance Florence I : the quattrocento -- Aristocracy emulated: the de facto Medici regime -- Music in Renaissance Florence II : the cinquecento -- Aristocracy achieved : the de jure Medici regime, family as country, and "Florentinism" -- Music in Florence in the baroque era -- Cross-genre influences : monody, the stile recitativo, and the stile concertato in Florentine music of the seicento and early settecento.
- Call Number
- JME 23-417
- ISBN
- 9780226822785
- 0226822788
- 9780226822792 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022026792
- OCLC
- 1329431211
- Author
- Cummings, Anthony M., author.
- Title
- Music in golden-age Florence, 1250-1750 : from the priorate of the guilds to the end of the Medici grand duchy / Anthony M. Cummings.
- Publisher
- Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 2023.
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [433]-466) and index.
- Chronological Term
- To 1737
- Research Call Number
- JME 23-417