| Music and Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Mantua: Volume 1 Contributor(s): Fenlon, Iain (Author), Iain, Fenlon (Author) |
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ISBN: 052108833X ISBN-13: 9780521088336 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $40.84 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2008 Annotation: Viewed traditionally, the history of sixteenth-century Mantuan music is almost a catalogue of some of the most distinguished composers of the age. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Industries - General - Music | History & Criticism - General |
| Dewey: 338.477 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Music |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" (0.88 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Viewed traditionally, the history of sixteenth-century Mantuan music is almost a catalogue of some of the most distinguished composers of the age, from Tromboncino and Cara, via Jacquet of Mantua, to Wert, Palestrina, Marenzio, Pallavicino, Gastoldi, Rossi and Monteverdi. The remarkable achievements of composers under Gonzaga patronage, practically synonymous with Mantuan patronage during this period, are treated here in their social context. The arguments proceed not just from the music itself, but from detailed examination of archival sources, from which Dr Fenlon reconstructs employment patterns and describes the social structure and institutional life of the city. The aim of the book is to show how the patterns of patronage, and music and musicians, reflect and illuminate the temperaments and prime preoccupations of successive rulers. The book contains a substantial appendix of unpublished archival documents, a small proportion only of the scholarly and comparative sources on which the study is based. |