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The politicized muse

Music for Medici festivals, 1512 - 1537

Author: Anthony M. Cummings

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The politicized muse - Music for Medici festivals, 1512 - 1537

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Music for Medici festivals, 1512 - 1537

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Publisher:  Princeton University Press

Place of printing:  Princeton, New Jersey

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During the years between the restoration of the Medici to Florence and the election of Cosimo I, the Medici family sponsored a series of splendid public festivals, reconstructed here by Anthony M. Cummings. Cummings has utilized unexpectedly rich sources of information about the musical life of the time in contemporary narrative accounts of these occasions--histories, diaries, and family memoirs. In this interdisciplinary work, he explains how the festivals combined music with art and literature to convey political meanings to Florentine observers. As analyzed by Cummings, the festivals document the political transformation of the city in the crucial era that witnessed the end of the Florentine republic and the beginnings of the Medici principate. This book will interest all students of the life and institutions of sixteenth-century Florence and of the Medici family. In addition, the author furnishes new evidence about the contexts for musical performances in early modern Europe. By describing such contexts, he ascertains much about how music was performed and how it sounded in this period of music history and shows that the modes of musical expression were more varied than is suggested by the relatively few surviving examples of actual pieces of music.

Originally published in 1992.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Example in good condition. Dust jacket with slight yellowing, dust spots and slight signs of wear to the edges and corners. Pressure mark on the upper edge of the back. Note in pen and stamp on endpaper. Cuts with traces of dust. English text. english text. Book in good condition.

ISBN Code:  0691091420

EAN:  9780691091426

Pages:  260

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  25
Width:  16

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english text. There are numerous b/w nt and ft images

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