City Culture And The Madrigal At Venice
DOWNLOAD
Download City Culture And The Madrigal At Venice PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get City Culture And The Madrigal At Venice book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
City Culture And The Madrigal At Venice
DOWNLOAD
Author : Martha Feldman
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-11-10
City Culture And The Madrigal At Venice written by Martha Feldman and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-10 with categories.
Martha Feldman's exploration of sixteenth-century Venetian madrigals centers on the importance to the Venetians of Ciceronian rhetorical norms, which emphasized decorum through adherence to distinct stylistic levels. She shows that Venice easily adapted these norms to its long-standing mythologies of equilibrium, justice, peace, and good judgment. Feldman explains how Venetian literary theorists conceived variety as a device for tempering linguistic extremes and thereby maintaining moderation. She further shows how the complexity of sacred polyphony was adapted by Venetian music theorists and composers to achieve similar ends. At the same time, Feldman unsettles the kinds of simplistic alignments between the collectivity of the state and its artistic production that have marked many historical studies of the arts. Her rich social history enables a more intricate dialectics among sociopolitical formations; the roles of individual printers, academists, merchants, and others; and the works of composers and poets. City Culture offers a new model for situating aesthetic products in a specific time and place, one that sees expressive objects not simply against a cultural backdrop but within an integrated complex of cultural forms and discursive practices. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.
The Courtesan S Arts
DOWNLOAD
Author : Martha Feldman
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2006-03-23
The Courtesan S Arts written by Martha Feldman and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-23 with History categories.
Courtesans, hetaeras, tawaif-s, ji-s--these women have exchanged artistic graces, elevated conversation, and sexual favors with male patrons throughout history and around the world. In Ming dynasty China and early modern Italy, exchange was made through poetry, speech, and music; in pre-colonial India through magic, music, chemistry, and other arts. Yet like the art of courtesanry itself, those arts have often thrived outside present-day canons and modes of transmission, and have mostly vanished without trace.The Courtesan's Arts delves into this hidden legacy, while touching on its equivocal relationship to geisha. At once interdisciplinary, empirical, and theoretical, the book is the first to ask how arts have figured in the survival or demise of courtesan cultures by juxtaposing research from different fields. Among cases studied by writers on classics, ethnomusicology, anthropology, and various histories of art, music, literature, and political culture are Ming dynasty China, twentieth-century Korea, Edo and modern Japan, ancient Greece, early modern Italy, and India, past and present. Refusing a universal model, the authors nevertheless share a perception that courtesans hover in the crevices of space, time, and practice--between gifts and money, courts and cities, subtlety and flamboyance, feminine allure and masculine power, as wifely surrogates but keepers of culture. What most binds them to their arts in our post-industrialized world of global services and commodities, they find, is courtesans' fragility, as their cultures, once vital to civilizations founded in leisure and pleasure, are now largely forgotten, transforming courtesans into national icons or historical curiosities, or reducing them to prostitution.
A Companion To Music In Sixteenth Century Venice
DOWNLOAD
Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-12-18
A Companion To Music In Sixteenth Century Venice written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-18 with History categories.
Covering all facets of musical life in sixteenth-century Venice, the Companion addresses the city’s institutions (churches, confraternities, and academies), public and private occasions of music making, musicians and instrument makers, and the rich variety of musical genres.
The Italian Madrigal In The Early Sixteenth Century
DOWNLOAD
Author : Iain Fenlon
language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date : 1988
The Italian Madrigal In The Early Sixteenth Century written by Iain Fenlon and has been published by CUP Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Music categories.
This 1988 book examines the genesis and dissemination of the Italian madrigal in its formative stages. Iain Fenlon and James Haar have analysed this vast repertoire as it is found in manuscript and print offer information concerning the date and provenance of many fundamental sources together with a view of the subject which differs radically from previous treatments. Their study is divided into two parts. The first covers the rise and early cultivation of the madrigal, chiefly in Florence and Rome. The second contains a detailed descriptive inventory of all known manuscripts and printed editions, finishing with lists of contents and concordances in each case. This important study will serve those with an interest in Renaissance music and the changing cultural ambience of early sixteenth-century Florence and Rome.
Boccherini S Body
DOWNLOAD
Author : Elisabeth Le Guin
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2006
Boccherini S Body written by Elisabeth Le Guin and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Annotation A study of how the physical processes of learning to play a piece of music can enrich and inform the mental process of studying and analyzing the music, using the cello music of Luigi Boccherini as a case study.
Madrigals For Four Voices
DOWNLOAD
Author : John Bennet
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1845
Madrigals For Four Voices written by John Bennet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1845 with Madrigals categories.
Antonio Gardano Venetian Music Printer 1538 1569
DOWNLOAD
Author : Mary Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-18
Antonio Gardano Venetian Music Printer 1538 1569 written by Mary Lewis and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-18 with Music categories.
Antonio Gardano's publications are among the most important sources of sixteenth-century music. This final volume in Mary Lewis's three volume set completes the catalogue of Antonio Gardano's publications, covering the years 1560-1569.
Cultures Of Empire Rethinking Venetian Rule 1400 1700
DOWNLOAD
Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-07-27
Cultures Of Empire Rethinking Venetian Rule 1400 1700 written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-27 with History categories.
This book investigates perceptions, modes, and techniques of Venetian rule in the early modern Eastern Mediterranean (1400–1700) between colonial empire, negotiated and pragmatic rule; between soft touch and exploitation; in contexts of former and continuous imperial belongings; and with a focus on representations and modes of rule as well as on colonial daily realities and connectivities.
The Castrato
DOWNLOAD
Author : Martha Feldman
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2016-08-02
The Castrato written by Martha Feldman and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-02 with Music categories.
The Castrato is a nuanced exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. It shows that the entire foundation of Western classical singing, culminating in bel canto, was birthed from an unlikely and historically unique set of desires, public and private, aesthetic, economic, and political. In Italy, castration for singing was understood through the lens of Catholic blood sacrifice as expressed in idioms of offering and renunciation and, paradoxically, in satire, verbal abuse, and even the symbolism of the castrato’s comic cousin Pulcinella. Sacrifice in turn was inseparable from the system of patriarchy—involving teachers, patrons, colleagues, and relatives—whereby castrated males were produced not as nonmen, as often thought nowadays, but as idealized males. Yet what captivated audiences and composers—from Cavalli and Pergolesi to Handel, Mozart, and Rossini—were the extraordinary capacities of castrato voices, a phenomenon ultimately unsettled by Enlightenment morality. Although the castrati failed to survive, their musicality and vocality have persisted long past their literal demise.
The Cultural Identities Of European Cities
DOWNLOAD
Author : Katia Pizzi
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2010
The Cultural Identities Of European Cities written by Katia Pizzi and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Cities and towns categories.
Cities are both real and imaginary places whose identity is dependent on their distinctive heritage: a network of historically transmitted cultural resources. The essays in this volume, which originate from a lecture series at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London, explore the complex and multi-layered identities of European cities. Themes that run through the essays include: nostalgia for a grander past; location between Eastern and Western ideologies, religions and cultures; and the fluidity and palimpsest quality of city identity. Not only does the book provide different thematic angles and a variety of approaches to the investigation of city identity, it also emphasizes the importance of diverse cultural components. The essays presented here discuss cultural forms as various as music, architecture, literature, journalism, philosophy, television, film, myths, urban planning and the naming of streets.