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Pope 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

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    A Paperback / softback by Anthony M. Cummings

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      Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
      Publication Date: 30/06/2022
      ISBN13: 9780472038930, 978-0472038930
      ISBN10: 472038931
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      Sacred and religious music

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Pope 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

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