عنوان

Women and music in sixteenth-century Ferrara /

(Number (ISBN

1107154073

(Number (ISBN

9781107154070

Erroneous ISBN

9781108648400 (PDF ebook)

Erroneous ISBN

9781316650455

Title Proper

Women and music in sixteenth-century Ferrara /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Laurie Stras.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York, NY, USA :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2018.

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2018

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xxiii, 391 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, music ;

Dimensions

25 cm.

Series Title

New perspectives in music history and criticism

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-371) and indexes.

Text of Note

Introduction : Musica secreta -- Ferrarese convents and the Este in the first half of the sixteenth century -- Courtly women and scular music in Ferrara in the first half of the sixteenth century -- Princesses and politics : the Este women and music in the 1550s -- Actresses and Ariosto : spectacle and song in the 1560s -- "Un modo di cantare molto diverso" : Ferrara and the new singing of the 1570s -- Margherita's arrival and the convents in the first half of the 1580s -- Musical practices of the 1580s Concerto -- Ferrara's final chapter : court and convents in the 1590s -- Afterlife in Mantua.

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Text of Note

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. --

International Standard Book Number

9781316650455

Music-- Italy-- Ferrara-- 16th century-- History and criticism.

Music-- Social aspects-- Italy-- Ferrara-- History-- 16th century.

Women musicians-- Italy-- Ferrara-- History-- 16th century.

Courts and courtiers.

Frau

Music-- Social aspects.

Music.

Musik

Musikerin

Women musicians.

Ferrara (Italy), Court and courtiers, History, 16th century.

Ferrara

Italien

Italy, Ferrara.

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Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Stras, Laurie

Date of Transaction

20200822151353.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

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Electronic name

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