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The Music Room in Early Modern France and Italy - Sound, Space and Object (Hardcover)
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The Music Room in Early Modern France and Italy - Sound, Space and Object (Hardcover)
Series: Proceedings of the British Academy, 176
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This interdisciplinary book investigates the use of secular space
for music making in Early Modern France and Italy. The fact that
many artists of the time also had musical skills underlines the
close relationship between music and the visual arts. This era is
remarkable for the growing importance of music in domestic life,
ranging from elaborate court festivities to family recreation. In
parallel with the emergence of the theatre as a separate building
type, music-making in elite circles became more specialised through
the employment of paid musicians, as opposed to amateur
participation by the inhabitants and their guests. Meanwhile,
however, music printing and the mass-production of instruments,
especially lutes, allowed music-making to diffuse down the social
scale.
We see how spaces specifically designed for music began to appear
in private dwellings, while existing rooms became adapted for the
purpose. At first, the number of rooms specifically identifiable as
'music rooms' was very small, but gradually over the following 150
years, specialised music rooms began to appear in larger residences
in both France and Italy. A major theme is the relationship between
the size and purpose of the room and the kinds of music performed -
depending on the size, portability and loudness of different
instruments; the types of music suited to spaces of different
dimensions; the role of music in dancing and banqueting; and the
positions of players and listeners. Musical instruments were often
elaborately decorated to become works of art in their own right.
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