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Book SynopsisThis book offers an overview of all facets of musical life in sixteenth-century Venice. It addresses the city’s institutions (churches, confraternities, and academies) against the background of public and private occasions of music making. Supported by a generous collection of archival, literary, and iconographical sources, it treats both ceremonial life in the Serenissima and private forms of patronage. The Companion also addresses the dense web of musical activity (from chapel masters and singers to instrumentalists and instrument makers to music printers and theorists) and the rich variety of styles and musical genres (the frottola, the madrigal, motets and masses, instrumental music, polychoral music, Venetian-language polyphony), broadening the geographical perspective beyond the Veneto to Istria and Dalmatia. Contributors are Rodolfo Baroncini, Sherri Bishop, Bonnie J. Blackburn, David Bryant, Ivano Cavallini, Paolo Da Col, Daniel Donnelly, Rebecca Edwards, Iain Fenlon, Jonathan Glixon, Don Harrán (†), Jeffrey Kurtzman, Giulio M. Ongaro, Francesco Passadore, Elena Quaranta, Katelijne Schiltz, Eleanor Selfridge-Field, and Giovanni Zanovello.
Trade Review"...L’immagine comune della vita musicale veneziana del Rinascimento generalmente viene focalizzata sulla basilica ducale dove si svolgevano le cerimonie solenni e sfarzose che rappresentavano il potere della Serenissima, e nella quale operavano i più prestigiosi musicisti dell’epoca, ma dai diciotto saggi che compongono questo A Companion to Music in Sixteenth-Century Venice […] emerge un panorama sonoro incredibilmente ampio, dettagliato e unico per la sua specificità. A Venezia la musica risuonava in tutti i suoi sestieri grazie alla quantità di chiese, conventi, confraternite, saloni di palazzi nobiliari e accademie, e agli stampatori e ai costruttori di strumenti musicali attivi nella città lagunare." - Paolo Scarnecchia on http://www.giornaledellamusica.it/dischi/riscoprire-la-musica-di-giovanni-croce.
Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Figures List of Tables List of Music Examples Abbreviations Contributors Introduction: Mapping Musical Life in Cinquecento Venice Katelijne Schiltz Part 1: Musical Institutions 1 San Marco Giulio M. Ongaro 2 Music at Parish, Monastic, and Nunnery Churches and at Confraternities Jonathan Glixon 3 Parish and Monastic Churches: Civic Custom and the Quotidian in the System of Institutional Patronage Elena Quaranta 4 Music and the Academies of Venice and the Veneto Iain Fenlon Part 2: Music in the Public and Private Space 5 Music, Ritual, and Festival: The Ceremonial Life of Venice Iain Fenlon 6 Ridotti and Salons: Private Patronage Rodolfo Baroncini Part 3: Musical Actors 7 The Maestri di Cappella Francesco Passadore 8 Silent Voices: Professional Singers In Venice Paolo Da Col 9 Instrumentalists and Instrument Makers before c. 1550 Bonnie J. Blackburn 10 Instruments, Instrument Makers, and Instrumentalists in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century Jeffrey Kurtzman 11 Music Printing and Publishing in Cinquecento Venice Sherri Bishop 12 From Aaron to Zarlino: Music Theorists in the Social and Cultural Matrix of Sixteenth-Century Venice Rebecca Edwards Part 4: Genres, Styles, and Cross-Cultural Traditions 13 Cori Spezzati in Composition and Sound David Bryant 14 The Frottola in the Veneto Giovanni Zanovello 15 Venetian Instrumental Music in the Sixteenth Century Eleanor Selfridge-Field 16 Language, Style, and Subgenre in Venetian-Language Polyphony Daniel Donnelly 17 Jewish Art Music in Late Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Italy Don Harrán 18 The ‘Other’ Coastal Area of Venice: Musical Ties with Istria and Dalmatia Ivano Cavallini Bibliography General Index
