Music in the collective experience in sixteenth-century Milan / Christine Suzanne Getz.

Author/creator Getz, Christine Suzanne, 1957-
Format Book
Publication InfoAldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2005.
Descriptionxii, 313 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
Subjects
Music--Italy. --Milan. --16th century. --History and criticism.
Milan (Italy)--Social life and customs. --16th century.

Contents Forging a modern civic identity: music for the battle of Pavia. Milan after the fall of Ludovico il Moro ; Music for the battle at Pavia -- From Ducal to gubernatorial ceremonial. The Ducal chapels at Sant'Ambrogio in Vigevano and Santa Maria della Scala ; The Ducal ceremonial of Francesco Il Sforza ; The gubernatorial ceremonial -- The civic ceremonial at the Duomo of Milan. In Medio Ecclesiae ; The maestri di cappella 1522-1582 ; The cappella musicale ; Werrecore's 1555 motet book ; The Ruffo masses -- Music in the civic processions and triumphal progressions. Civil processions ; Triumphal progressions -- Instrumental music and musicians under the early governors. Instrumentalists in the court chapel of Francesco Il Sforza ; Instrumental musicians at the court of Alfonso D'Avalos ; Instrumental musicians at the court of Ferrante Gonzaga ; Lombard musicians serving abroad ; Musicians and the arms laws ; Instrumental musicians at the courts of Ferdinando-Alvarez de Toledo, Cristoforo Madruzzo, and Consalvo-Fernando di Cordova, Duke of Sessa ; Pietro Paolo Borrono, lutenist and spy ; The influence of the Milanese dance masters -- The collective culture of secular song. Singers and song at the court of Francesco Il Sforza ; Before Ferrante Gonzaga ; Secular entertainments at the court of Ferrante Gonzaga ; Secular entertainments at the court of Don Consalvo-Fernando di Cordova, Duke of Sessa ; The Moscheni and Scotto prints -- Public devotion in post-tridentine Milan. Borromeo and the patriciate ; The 'Madonna of miracles' at Santa Maria presso San Celso ; The society of the Ave Maria ; The schools of Christian doctrine ; The school of St Michael in San Calimero ; The confraternity of the rosary and the spiritual madrigal -- Appendix I. Documents -- Appendix II. Maestri, singers, and organists of the cappella musicale of the Duomo 1522-1563.
Abstract Using archival documents, music prints, manuscripts and contemporary writing, the author examines the musical culture of sixteenth-century Milan via its life within the city's most influential social institutions to show how fifteenth-century courtly traditions were adapted to the public arena. The book considers the relationship of the primary cappella musicale, including those of the Duomo, the court of Milan, Santa Maria della Scala, and Santa Maria presso San Celso, to the sixteenth-century institutions that housed them. In addition, the book investigates the musician's role as an actor and a functionary in the political, religious, and social spectacles produced by the Milanese church, state, and aristocracy within the city's diverse urban spaces. Furthermore, it establishes a context for the numerous motets, madrigals, and lute intabulations composed and printed in sixteenth-century Milan by examining their function within the urban milieu in which they were first performed. Finally, it musically documents Milan's transformation from a ducal state dominated by provincial traditions into a mercantile centre of international acclaim. Such an important study in Italian Renaissance music will therefore appeal to anyone interested in the culture of Renaissance Italy.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 295-306) and index.
LCCN 2005005941
ISBN0754651215 (alk. paper)

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