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Music patronage --- Madrigals, Italian --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- 78 <45> "15" --- 78.078 --- Muziek--Italië--16e eeuw. Periode 1500-1599 --- Muziekbescherming. Muziekpolitiek. Muziekbeleid --- 78.078 Muziekbescherming. Muziekpolitiek. Muziekbeleid --- Business patronage of music --- Corporations --- Maecenatism --- Patronage of music --- Performing arts sponsorship --- Italian madrigals --- Madrigals (Music), Italian --- Music patronage - Italy - Florence --- Madrigals, Italian - Italy - 16th century - History and criticism

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During the years between the restoration of the Medici to Florence and the election of Cosimo I, the Medici family sponsored a series of splendid public festivals, reconstructed here by Anthony M. Cummings. Cummings has utilized unexpectedly rich sources of information about the musical life of the time in contemporary narrative accounts of these occasions-histories, diaries, and family memoirs. In this interdisciplinary work, he explains how the festivals combined music with art and literature to convey political meanings to Florentine observers. As analyzed by Cummings, the festivals document the political transformation of the city in the crucial era that witnessed the end of the Florentine republic and the beginnings of the Medici principate. This book will interest all students of the life and institutions of sixteenth-century Florence and of the Medici family. In addition, the author furnishes new evidence about the contexts for musical performances in early modern Europe. By describing such contexts, he ascertains much about how music was performed and how it sounded in this period of music history and shows that the modes of musical expression were more varied than is suggested by the relatively few surviving examples of actual pieces of music.Originally published in 1992.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Arts italiens --- Arts de la Renaissance --- Médicis (famille de) --- Mécénat --- -Arts, Italian --- -Arts, Renaissance --- -Music and state --- -State and music --- Renaissance arts --- Medici, House of --- -Art and state --- Arts, Renaissance --- State and music --- Art and state --- -Festivals --- -Music --- Art --- Arts --- Politics and art --- State and art --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Italian arts --- History --- -History and criticism --- Government policy --- Florence (Italy) --- -Florent︠s︡ii︠a︡ (Italy) --- Firenze (Italy) --- Florencia (Italy) --- Florença (Italy) --- Florenz (Italy) --- Florentia (Italy) --- -Arts italiens --- Musique --- Arts, Italian --- Festivals --- Music and state --- Music --- Cultural policy --- Days --- Manners and customs --- Anniversaries --- Fasts and feasts --- Pageants --- Processions --- Art and society --- Education and state --- History and criticism --- Social aspects --- Medici, House of. --- History and criticism. --- 16th century --- 1421-1737 --- Arts [Italian ] --- Arts [Renaissance ] --- Medici [House of ] --- Music - Italy - Florence - 16th century - History and criticism. --- Music and state - Italy - Florence. --- Festivals - Italy - Florence - History - 16th century. --- Florence (Italy) - History - 1421-1737. --- Arts, Italian - Italy - Florence. --- Arts, Renaissance - Italy - Florence. --- Art and state - Italy - Florence. --- Médicis --- Mécénat. --- 78.21.2 Firenze --- 78.24

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History of Italy --- Medici, de [Family] --- anno 1500-1599

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Church music --- Music --- Papal courts --- Renaissance --- Catholic Church --- History and criticism --- Leo

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"Florence is justly celebrated as one of the world's most important cities. It enjoys mythic status and occupies an enviable place in the historical imagination. But its music-historical importance is less well understood than it should be. If Florence was the city of Dante, Michelangelo, and Galileo, it was also the birthplace of the madrigal, opera, and the piano. This is the only book of its kind, a comprehensive account of music in Florence from the late Middle Ages until the end of the Medici dynasty in the mid-eighteenth century. It recounts the principal developments in the history of Florence's contributions to music and how music was heard and cultivated in the city, from civic and religious institutions to private patronage and the academies. Scholars from sister disciplines and a general readership interested in the history and culture of Florence will find this book an invaluable complement to studies of the art, literature, and political thought of the late-medieval and early-modern eras and the quasi-legendary figures in the Florentine cultural pantheon"

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