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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

    The Lions Ear

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      A Paperback / softback by Anthony M. Cummings

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        Publisher The University of Michigan Press
        Published 30 June 2022
        ISBN-13 9780472038930
        978-0472038930
        ISBN-10 472038931
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        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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