City Culture and the Madrigal at Venice / Martha Feldman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feldman, Martha, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Madrigals, Italian--Italy--Venice--History and criticism.

Madrigals, Italian.

Venice (Italy)--Civilization--To 1797.

Venice (Italy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (512 p.) : tabl., fig., plates

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1995]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Martha Feldman's exploration of sixteenth-century Venetian madrigals centers on the importance to the Venetians of Ciceronian rhetorical norms, which emphasized decorum through adherence to distinct stylistic levels. She shows that Venice easily adapted these norms to its long-standing mythologies of equilibrium, justice, peace, and good judgment. Feldman explains how Venetian literary theorists conceived variety as a device for tempering linguistic extremes and thereby maintaining moderation. She further shows how the complexity of sacred polyphony was adapted by Venetian music theorists and composers to achieve similar ends. At the same time, Feldman unsettles the kinds of simplistic alignments between the collectivity of the state and its artistic production that have marked many historical studies of the arts. Her rich social history enables a more intricate dialectics among sociopolitical formations; the roles of individual printers, academists, merchants, and others; and the works of composers and poets. City Culture offers a new model for situating aesthetic products in a specific time and place, one that sees expressive objects not simply against a cultural backdrop but within an integrated complex of cultural forms and discursive practices. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

List of Tables and Figures

List of Plates

Abbreviations

Preface

1. Flexibility in the Body Social

2. Florentines in Venice and the Madrigal at Home

3. Petrarchizing the Patron: Vernacular Dialogics and Print Technology

4. Ritual Language, New Music: Encounters in the Academy of Domenico Venier

5. Currents in Venetian Literary and Linguistic Theory: The Consolidation of Poetry and Rhetoric

6. Currents in Venetian Music Theory: The Consolidation of Music and Rhetoric

7. The Madrigals of Adrian Willaert

8. The Enigma of Rore: Books One and Two for Five Voices

9. Willaert's Protégés at San Marco: Codification, Dissemination, and Subversion

10. Epilogue "sopra le stanze del Petrarca in laude della Madonna": Rore's Vergine Cycle of 1548

Appendix: Documents Cited in Chapters

Selective Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520310759

0520310756

OCLC:

1198931450