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Title
Women and music in sixteenth-century Ferrara / Laurie Stras.
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Copyright
©2018
Description
xxiii, 391 pages ; 25 cm
Associated name
Series statement
New perspectives in music history and criticism
Note
The musica secreta or concerto delle dame of Duke Alfonso II d'Este, an ensemble of virtuoso female musicians that performed behind closed doors at the castello in Ferrara, is well-known to music history. Their story is often told by focussing on the Duke's obsessive patronage and the exclusivity of their music. This book examines the music-making of four generations of princesses, noblewomen and nuns in Ferrara, as performers, creators, and patrons from a new perspective. It rethinks the relationships between polyphony and song, sacred and secular, performer and composer, patron and musician, court and convent. With new archival evidence and analysis of music, people, and events over the course of the century, from the role of the princess nun musician, Leonora d'Este, to the fate of the musica secreta's jealously guarded repertoire, this radical approach will appeal to musicians and scholars alike. --
Book jacket.
Book jacket.
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-371) and indexes.
Contents
Introduction : Musica secreta
Ferrarese convents and the Este in the first half of the sixteenth century
Courtly women and scular music in Ferrara in the first half of the sixteenth century
Princesses and politics : the Este women and music in the 1550s
Actresses and Ariosto : spectacle and song in the 1560s
"Un modo di cantare molto diverso" : Ferrara and the new singing of the 1570s
Margherita's arrival and the convents in the first half of the 1580s
Musical practices of the 1580s Concerto
Ferrara's final chapter : court and convents in the 1590s
Afterlife in Mantua.
Ferrarese convents and the Este in the first half of the sixteenth century
Courtly women and scular music in Ferrara in the first half of the sixteenth century
Princesses and politics : the Este women and music in the 1550s
Actresses and Ariosto : spectacle and song in the 1560s
"Un modo di cantare molto diverso" : Ferrara and the new singing of the 1570s
Margherita's arrival and the convents in the first half of the 1580s
Musical practices of the 1580s Concerto
Ferrara's final chapter : court and convents in the 1590s
Afterlife in Mantua.
Series
New perspectives in music history and criticism.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
ML3917.I8 S8 2018