Bonfire songs : Savonarola's musical legacy / Patrick Macey.

Author/creator Macey, Patrick Paul
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Descriptionxx, 359 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Subjects
Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498--Musical settings. --History and criticism.
Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498--Views on church music.
Laude--History and criticism.
Motets--History and criticism. --16th century.
Church music--Catholic Church. --15th century.
Church music--Catholic Church. --16th century.
Church music--Italy. --Florence. --15th century.

SeriesOxford monographs on music
Oxford monographs on music. ^A256395
Contents Part I. The popular tradition: secular song to lauda. Ecce quam bonum: Savonarola to prophet and reformer -- Florentine music in Savonarola's time. Carnival song and lauda under Lorenzo de' Medici ; Razzi's Libro primo (1563) and its musical sources -- Laude for Savonarolan carnivals and other celebrations, 1496-1498. Viva Cristo!: Laude for carnival, 16 February 1496 ; Carnival and bonfire of vanities, 7 February 1497 ; 'Crazy for Jesus': other laude by Girolamo Benivieni ; The last Savonarolan carnival, 27 Ferbruary 1498 -- Savonarola against and for music. Savonarola's sermons against music ; Savonarola's laude and their musical settings -- Laude by Piagnoni in veneration of Savonarola. The Piagnoni in the sixteenth century ; Fra Luca Bettini, Ecce quam bonum ; Fra Benedetto Luschino, La carita e spenta ; Suor Caterina de' Ricci, Da che tu m'hai dimostro ; Fra Serafino Razzi, Vergini deh lasciate and Piangendo i miei peccati ; Other laude in honour of Savonarola ; The significance of Razzi's Libro primo delle laudi -- Part II. The art tradition: musical settings of Savonarola's meditations on Psalms 50 and 30. The reception of Savonarola in the sixteenth century. The meditations on Psalms 50 and 30 ; Savonarola's reception in Italy and Germany ; Savonarola's psalm meditations in France and England -- Musical echoes of Ecce quam bonum in France and Florence. Richafort's O quam dulcis and other French works ; Verdelot in Florence: Letamini in domino/Ecce quam bonum -- Savonarola and the Dukes of Ferra: musical reminiscences. Ercole I d'Este and Josquin's Miserere mei deus ; Ercole II d'Este and Infelix ego by Willaert and Rore -- Cardinal Francois de Tournon and Infelix ego by Simon Joly -- Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este and Savonarolan motets in Italy and France. Infelix ego and motets by Vicentino and Palestrina ; Tristitia obsedit me and motets by Hellinck and Le Jeune -- Motets on Savonarola's psalm meditations in the Low Countries and Germany. Clemens non Papa, Tristitia obsedit me ; Lassus and Reiner, Infelix ego -- Savonarola's psalm meditations in England. Archbishop Cranmer and Savonarola's meditation on Psalm 50 ; Hunnis and Savonarola's meditation on Psalm 50 ; Mundy and Ravenscroft: two English verse anthems ; Byrd, Infelix ego -- Epilogue -- Appendices. A. Contents of Serafino Razzi, Libro primo delle laudi spirituali (Venice, 1563) ; B. Laude in the concluding section of Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Rossi 424 ; C. Savonarolan laude in Biblioteca Marucelliana, Florence, MS C.262 ; D. Savonarolan laude in Biblioteca Nazionale, Florence, MS Rossi 395 ; E. Savonarolan laude in Biblioteca Nazionale, Florence, Magl. VII.365 ; F. Savonarolan laude in Biblioteca Nazionale, Florence, MS Pal. 169 ; G. Savanarolan laude in Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MS San Marco 429 ; H. Encomium of Savonarola by Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola and Lilio Gregorio Giraldi.
Contents Contents of accompanying compact disc: Sian galanti di Valenza / Lorenzo de' Medici -- Visin, visin, visin / Anon. ; Giesù, Giesù, Giesù / F. Belcari -- Berricuocoli donne e confortini / L. de' Medici -- Viva, viva in nostro core / Anon. -- Viva Cristo e chi li crede / F. Cioni -- Viva ne' nostri cuori / G. Benivieni -- Voi toccate la chiavetta / Anon. -- Non fu mai el più bel solazzo ; Io vo darti anima mia / Benivieni -- Giesù sommo conforto ; Che fai qui, core? ; In su quell'aspro monte ; Giesù dolce conforto ; Alma che sì gentile / Savonarola -- Ecce quam bonum / L. Bettini -- La carità è spenta / B. Luschino -- Da che tu m'hai dimostro / Caterina de' Ricci -- Ecce quomodo moritur / Anon. -- Vergini deh lasciate ; Piangendo i miei peccati / Razzi -- O quam dulcis/Ecce quam bonum / Richafort -- Letamini in domino/Ecce quam bonum / Verdelot -- Infelix ego / Willaert -- Infelix ego / Simon Joly -- Tristitia obsedit me / Claude Le Jeune -- Tristitia obsedit me / Clemens non Papa -- Ah helples wretch / W. Hunnis -- Ah helpless wretch / W. Mundy.
Abstract An underground tradition of sacred songs--Italian laude--thrived in Italy during the sixteenth century. The texts of many were written by the condemned heretic Fra Girolamo Savonarola, who was burned at the stake in Florence in 1498. This study explores the religious and social functions of these laude during Savonarola's time in Florence. It also reconstructs music for laude written to venerate the friar after his death. Savonarola's meditations on Psalms 30 and 50 were also set to music as motets by some of the leading composers of the 16th century, in a style of "high art" music remarkably distinct from the more popular tone of the lauda. These complex motets were often the result of networks of patronage at courts in Ferrara, France, and England. The book includes a CD with a selection of performances of the music discussed. --From publisher's description.
Local noteJoyner-JOYNER MUSIC LIBRARY BOOK ACCOMPANIED BY SOUND RECORDING CD-4500: SEARCH BY CALL NUMBER OR TITLE: Bonfire songs : Savonarola's musical legacy.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 323-338) and index.
LCCN 97050600
ISBN0198166699 (acid-free paper)

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