Music and Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Mantua
Volume 1
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Part of Cambridge Studies in Music
- Author: Iain Fenlon
- Date Published: October 2008
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521088336
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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 The book contains a substantial appendix of unpublished archival documents, a small proportion only of the scholarly and comparative sources on which the study is based.
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- Date Published: October 2008
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521088336
- length: 248 pages
- dimensions: 244 x 170 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.4kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. The origins of Mantuan Renaissance culture
2. Ercole Gonzaga and jacquet of Mantua
3. Guglielmo Gonzaga and the Santa Barbara project
4. Vincenzo Gonzaga and the new arts of spectacle.
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