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The Laudesi Companies of Republican Florence
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 9 July 1992
- ISBN 9780198161769
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages314 pages
- Size 242x161x26 mm
- Weight 701 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 pp halftone plates, line figures, tables, music examples 0
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For all that has been written about Renaissance Florence, we know relatively little about its musical life, its religious life, and the aspirations of its average citizens. This book contributes significantly to an understanding of all of these by documenting and interpreting the corporate patronage of an important Florentine musical repertory over a period of some 200 years.
From the late thirteenth to the early sixteenth centuries at least twelve lay confraternities sponsored a widespread musical activity involving a specialized network of singers and instrumentalists. The meticulous records kept by these companies reveal a wealth of information about the musicians' conditions and patterns of activity, the central role of music in the companies' vernacular liturgy (especially as conditioned by bequests), and vital performance practice issues such as the role of instruments in vocal performance, the shift from monophonic to polyphonic practice, and the interaction of written and unwritten musical traditions. Because the companies were, in many respects, both a microcosm and characteristic manifestation of this remarkable Renaissance city, the author also seeks to explain how mendicant spirituality, guild society, and devotional images and imagination provide the essential context for understanding the function and significance of laudesi practice and repertoire. This book will be welcomed not only by musicologists, but by Italianists and late medieval and early modern scholars in general.
it is refreshing to find one [book on musical patronage in Italian states ] devoted to the important centre of Florence ... Such scrupulously researched study of archives and sources certainly contributes greatly to our understanding of the musical form of laude spirituale whose historical importance has previously been scantly recognised ... the historically inclined reader will glean much from this well-written and beautifully presented account of a microcosm of Florentine life in the Middle Ages.
