The civic muse : music and musicians in Siena during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance / Frank A. D'Accone.

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D'Accone, Frank A

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0226133680
9780226133683
9780226133669
0226133664
1281223271
9781281223272
9786611223274
6611223274

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Civic muse.DDC classification:

780/.945/580902 21

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ML290.8.S43 D33 1997eb

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Contents:

THE CIVIC MUSE; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; List of Musical Examples; Preface; Note on Sources, Citations, and Transcriptions; Note on Sienese Dating and Money; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part One: The Cathedral; 1. The Cathedral and Its Administration, Personnel, and Liturgical Calendar; 2. Chant and Improvised Polyphony in Later Medieval Times; 3. Singers and Organists, 1380-1448; 4. Building a Chapel, 1448-1480; 5. Expansion and Retrenchment in the Chapel, 1480-1507; 6. The Development of a Stable Chapel, 1507-1555

7. Decline and Transformation of the Chapel, 1555-1607Part Two: The Palazzo Pubblico; 8. Origins and Establishment of the Trumpeters' Corps, 1230-1399; 9. Pomp, Circumstance, and Security: The Trumpeters' Corps as an Ongoing Institution in the Fifteenth Century; 10. Diminishing Importance and Nostalgia for Times Past: The Trumpeters' Corps in the Sixteenth Century; 11. Establishment and Consolidation of the Pifferi in the Fifteenth Century; 12. Triumph of the Wind Band in the Sixteenth Century; Part Three: Music in the Life of the Town

13. Beyond Cathedral and Palace Walls: Professional Musicians and Dancing Masters, Amateurs, Builders, and Repairmen, 1300-1614. Music at Social Events, Public and Private; Register of Musicians; I. Cathedral Singers and Wind Players; II. Cathedral Organists and Organ Builders; III. Palace Trumpeters and Shawm Players, Town Criers, Drummers, and Singers; IV. Palace Pifferi; Bibliography; Index

Summary: Siena, blessed with neither the aristocratic nor the ecclesiastical patronage enjoyed by music in other northern Italian centers like Florence, nevertheless attracted first-rate composers and performers from all over Europe. As Frank A. D'Accone shows in this scrupulously documented study, policies developed by the town to favor the common good formed the basis of Siena's ambitious musical programs. Based on decades of research in the town's archives, D'Accone's The Civic Muse brilliantly illuminates both the sacred and the secular aspects of more than three centuries of mu.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 799-817) and index.

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Siena, blessed with neither the aristocratic nor the ecclesiastical patronage enjoyed by music in other northern Italian centers like Florence, nevertheless attracted first-rate composers and performers from all over Europe. As Frank A. D'Accone shows in this scrupulously documented study, policies developed by the town to favor the common good formed the basis of Siena's ambitious musical programs. Based on decades of research in the town's archives, D'Accone's The Civic Muse brilliantly illuminates both the sacred and the secular aspects of more than three centuries of mu.

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