The Politicized Muse : Music for Medici Festivals, 1512-1537 / Anthony M. Cummings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cummings, Anthony M., author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton essays on the arts.

Princeton Essays on the Arts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medici, House of.

Art and state--Italy--Florence.

Art and state.

Arts, Renaissance--Italy--Florence.

Arts, Renaissance.

Arts, Italian--Italy--Florence.

Arts, Italian.

Festivals--Italy--Florence--History--16th century.

Festivals.

Music and state--Italy--Florence.

Music and state.

Music--Italy--Florence--16th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Florence (Italy)--History--1421-1737.

Florence (Italy).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages) : illustrations, portraits.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

ILLUSTRATIONS

Preface and Acknowledgments

PARTIAL GENEALOGY OF THE MEDICI FAMILY

TO THE READER

Introduction : Some Aspects of Methodology

PART I. THE FIRST YEARS OF THE MEDICI RESTORATION: THE UNION OF FLORENCE AND ROME

Chapter 1. The Restoration

Chapter 2 . The 1513 Carnival

Chapter 3. The Election of Leo X

Chapter 4. Giuliano de' Medici's Capitoline Investiture

Chapter 5. Leo X's 1515 Florentine Entrata

PART II. TOWARD THE PRINCIPATO: LORENZO DE' MEDICI, 1513-1519

Chapter 6. Archbishop Giulio's Possesso

Chapter 7. The 1514 Feast of San Giovanni

Chapter 8. Lorenzo de' Medici, Captain General of the Florentine Militia and Duke of Urbino

Chapter 9. The Wedding of Lorenzo and Madeleine

PART III. ALESSANDRO DE' MEDICI AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PRINCIPATO

Chapter 10. The First Years of Clement's Pontificate

Chapter 11. The Coronation of Charles V

Chapter 12. Alessandro, Duke of the Florentine Republic

CHAPTER 13. The Wedding of Alessandro and Margaret

CONCLUSION: Toward a Typology of Florentine Festival Music of the Early Cinquecento

NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-250) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780691632919

069163291X

9780691603612

0691603618

9781400872732

1400872731

OCLC:

933515785