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Music and Culture in Late Renaissance Italy Iain Fenlon (, Reader in Historical Musicology, University of Cambridge)

Music and Culture in Late Renaissance Italy By Iain Fenlon (, Reader in Historical Musicology, University of Cambridge)

Music and Culture in Late Renaissance Italy by Iain Fenlon (, Reader in Historical Musicology, University of Cambridge)

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Iain Fenlon explores how music was an 'instrument' of those in power in late Renaissance Italy. Focusing on major urban centres - Mantua, Milan, Rome, Florence, and Venice - he argues that, far from losing its vigour after 1530, Italian culture was in fact transformed, as both individuals and institutions reacted to new political, economic, and religious circumstances.

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Music and Culture in Late Renaissance Italy by Iain Fenlon (, Reader in Historical Musicology, University of Cambridge)

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 calamita 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.

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... 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 *

About Iain Fenlon (, Reader in Historical Musicology, University of Cambridge)

Iain Fenlon is Reader in Historical Musicology at the University of Cambridge and the editor of Early Music History. His publications include: Music and Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Mantua; The Early Sixteenth Century Madrigal (with James Haar); The Song of the Soul: Understanding 'Poppea' (with Peter Miller); Music, Print and Culture in Renaissance Italy; and Music, Ceremony and Identity in Counter-Reformation Venice (forthcoming, Yale University Press).

Table of Contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; LIST OF PLANS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

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NPB9780198164449
9780198164449
0198164440
Music and Culture in Late Renaissance Italy by Iain Fenlon (, Reader in Historical Musicology, University of Cambridge)
Iain Fenlon (, Reader in Historical Musicology, University of Cambridge)
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Oxford University Press
2002-12-05
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