Description
Book SynopsisPope Leo X is widely understood to be one of the greatest patrons of music in European history.
The Lion’s Ear is the first full-length scholarly treatment of the musical patronage of a Renaissance pope and provides an evocative picture of the musical life of the pre-Reformation papacy.
Table of Contents
- Partial Genealogy of the Medici Family
- Introduction
- part one
- Public and Semipublic Contexts, Secular and Sacred Repertories
- Music and the “Islamic Other”: Public Festivals and Triumphal Entries
- The Liturgical Ceremonies of the Cappella Sistina
- part two
- Private Contexts, Secular Repertories
- Renaissance Neoplatonism and Music: Ad Hoc Occasions and the Iconography of the Stanza della Segnatura
- Quotidian Dining and Formal Banqueting
- The Music for Ad Hoc Occasions, Quotidian Dining, and Formal Banqueting
- Transvestism and the Carnivalesque at the Leonine Court: The Feasts of San Giovanni and Saints Cosmas and Damian
- Music and Theater
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
