Music and Culture in Late Renaissance Italy
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Published:5th Dec '02
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Dr Fenlon explores the role music played in the cultural, religious, and political upheavals of late Renaissance Italy, revealing how musical activity of all kinds was instrumentalized by those in power. Focusing on the second half of the sixteenth century - a period still often regarded as one of decline and degeneration after the achievements of the Quattrocento and before the calamità d'Italia - the author argues that Italian culture did not lose its vigour after 1530, but underwent a transformation, as both individuals and institutions reacted to new economic, political, and religious circumstances.
... the richness and diversity of his field of vision become that much more obvious and valuable when some of his previously dispersed papers are encountered together in a single volume, as they are here. * Early Music *
In the age of the Counter-Reformation, the streets, squares, palaces, courts, churches, nunneries, and Italian academies resounded with all kinds of music. Using an evocative mental technique similar to Ignatius of Loyolas visual composition of place, Iain Fenlon vividly reconstructs before our eyes the spaces and times of music, understood as a sounding sign of power, an allegory of celestial harmony, an image of antique myths, a celebration of the Deity, a stimulus to private devotion, and a symbol of collective identity. * Lorenzo Bianconi, University of Bologna *
ISBN: 9780198164449
Dimensions: 242mm x 162mm x 22mm
Weight: 635g
282 pages