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Angels in the American theater : patrons, patronage, and philanthropy
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ISBN: 0809387433 9780809387434 0809327473 9780809327478 Year: 2007 Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press,


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Music at the Gonzaga court in Mantua
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ISBN: 1280659688 9786613636614 0739167278 9780739167274 9780739167267 073916726X Year: 2012 Publisher: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books,

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In Music at the Gonzaga Court in Mantua, Donald C. Sanders examines the history of musical composition and performance at the northern Italian court of Mantua from the fifteenth century to the seventeenth century. Music is discussed in the context of the visual art, poetry, and theater that graced the court and of the Gonzaga family's interaction with the major European historical figures of the era.


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The musical sounds of medieval French cities : players, patrons, and politics
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ISBN: 9781107010611 1107010616 9780511862526 9781316620823 1316620824 9781139570831 1139570838 9781139569026 1139569023 0511862520 9781139572583 113957258X 9781139572583 1139888382 9781139888387 1139579401 9781139579407 1139573381 9781139573382 1283716275 9781283716277 1139569929 9781139569927 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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Drawing upon hundreds of newly uncovered archival records, Gretchen Peters reconstructs the music of everyday life in over twenty cities in late medieval France. Through the comparative study of these cities' political and musical histories, the book establishes that the degree to which a city achieved civic authority and independence determined the nature and use of music within the urban setting. The world of urban minstrels beyond civic patronage is explored through the use of diverse records; their livelihood depended upon seeking out and securing a variety of engagements from confraternities to bathhouses. Minstrels engaged in complex professional relationships on a broad level, as with guilds and minstrel schools, and on an individual level, as with partnerships and apprenticeships. The study investigates how minstrels fared economically and socially, recognizing the diversity within this body of musicians in the Middle Ages from itinerant outcasts to wealthy and respected town musicians.


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Moral Fire
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ISBN: 1280116498 9786613520784 0520951867 9780520951860 0520267443 9780520267442 9781280116490 6613520780 Year: 2012 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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Joseph Horowitz writes in Moral Fire: "If the Met's screaming Wagnerites standing on chairs (in the 1890's) are unthinkable today, it is partly because we mistrust high feeling. Our children avidly specialize in vicarious forms of electronic interpersonal diversion. Our laptops and televisions ensnare us in a surrogate world that shuns all but facile passions; only Jon Stewart and Bill Maher share moments of moral outrage disguised as comedy." Arguing that the past can prove instructive and inspirational, Horowitz revisits four astonishing personalities-Henry Higginson, Laura Langford, Henry Krehbiel and Charles Ives-whose missionary work in the realm of culture signaled a belief in the fundamental decency of civilized human nature, in the universality of moral values, and in progress toward a kingdom of peace and love.

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