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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Wilson, Blake McDowell. Music and merchants. Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992 (OCoLC)610606853 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Blake McDowell Wilson |
| ISBN: | 019816176X 9780198161769 |
| OCLC Number: | 26583263 |
| Description: | xv, 298 p., 11 p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. The Social Context. Mercantile Society. The Friars. The Lay Companies -- 2. Lauda-Singing and the Laudesi Company in Florence. Origins and Overview. Structure -- 3. The Companies of Florence. The Santa Croce Quarter. The San Giovanni Quarter. The Santa Maria Novella Quarter. The Santo Spirito Quarter. Other Companies -- 4. The Professional Laudese. Conditions and Patterns of Activity. Performing Forces and Repertoire -- 5. Ritual Space and Imagination. Lauda-Singing and Devotion. Altars and Images -- 6. Decline and Transformation: The Sixteenth Century -- App. I. Documents -- App. II. Document Types of the Florentine Laudesi Companies -- App. III. Laudesi Profiles from the 1427 Catasto -- App. IV. List of Laudesi Company Documents -- Music Example -- Music Example 1. 'San Domenico beato' -- Music Example 2. 'Allegro canto' -- Music Example 3. 'Ave, donna santissima' -- Music Example 4. 'Ciascun ke fede sente' -- Music Example 5. 'Alta Trinita beata'. |
| Responsibility: | Blake Wilson. |
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Abstract:
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 well be welcomed not only by musicologists, but by Italianists and late medieval and early modern scholars in general.
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- Laude -- History and criticism.
- Confraternities -- Italy -- Florence -- History.
- Florence (Italy) -- History.
- Music -- History
- Florence (Italy)
- Muziekbeoefening.
- Patronage.
- Broederschappen.
- Bruderschaft der Laudesi
- Geschichte
- Lauda
- Florenz
- Chanteurs -- Italie -- Florence (Italie) -- Histoire -- Moyen âge.
- Musiciens -- Italie -- Florence (Italie) -- Moyen âge.
- Musique religieuse -- Italie -- Florence (Italie) -- Moyen âge -- Histoire et critique.
