Research Catalog

Title

The music room in early modern France and Italy : sound, space, and object / edited by Deborah Howard & Laura Moretti.

Publication

Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Howard, Deborah, 1946-
• Moretti, Laura, 1969-

Description

xvi, 339 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 176

Uniform Title

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 176.

Subjects

• Music rooms and equipment > France > History > 16th century
• Music rooms and equipment > Italy > History > 17th century
• Music rooms and equipment > Italy > History > 16th century
• Music rooms and equipment > France > History > 17th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Music-making in domestic space -- Seduction and spirituality: the ambiguous roles of music in Venetian art -- When is a room a music room? Sounds, spaces, and objects in non-courtly Italian interiors -- The place of music in the artist's home -- Music in the French domestic interior (1500-1600) -- The role of music in the Venetian home in the Cinquecento -- Women on the edge: the "Saletta delle Dame" of the Palazzo Salvadego in Brescia -- Balance on the lute: the role of the strings -- The lute: an instrument for all seasons -- Assessing the acoustic performance of small music rooms: a short introduction -- "With tempered notes, in the green hills and among rivers": Music, learning, and the symbolic space of recreation in the Manuscript Modena, Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, a.F.9.9 -- Spaces for music in sixteenth-century Paduan courts -- Caccini's stages: identity and performance space in the Late Cinquecento Court -- Spaces for musical performance in the Este court in Ferrara (c.1440-1540) -- Music rooms in the Ducal Palace in Mantua: from Andrea Mantegna to Giovan Battista Bertani -- Queen Christina of Sweden as a patron of music in Rome in the Mid-Seventeenth century -- The acoustic analysis of Palladio's Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza -- Music at home: spaces for music in French seventeenth-century residential architecture -- Spaces for musical performance in seventeenth-century Roman residences.

ISBN

• 9780197265055 (hbk.)
• 0197265057 (hbk.)

LCCN

2012562618

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library