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The Politicized Muse - Music for Medici Festivals, 1512-1537 (Paperback)
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The Politicized Muse - Music for Medici Festivals, 1512-1537 (Paperback)
Series: Princeton Essays on the Arts
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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
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