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Women Musicians of Venice - Musical Foundations, 1525-1855 (Paperback, Revised) Loot Price: R3,251
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Women Musicians of Venice - Musical Foundations, 1525-1855 (Paperback, Revised): Jane L. Baldauf Berdes

Women Musicians of Venice - Musical Foundations, 1525-1855 (Paperback, Revised)

Jane L. Baldauf Berdes

Series: Oxford Monographs on Music

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This book opens a door long closed on an important era in the history of Venice. It presents, for the first time, an introductory, contextual study of three centuries of musical activity at the four eleemosynary foundations of the former Venetian Republic: the ospedali grandi. It provides a comprehensive account of the institutional, social, religious, and civic dimensions of these welfare complexes, with particular reference to their musical subsidiaries, or cori.

Involving over 300 external professional male composers and music teachers and over 800 internal professional women musicians, the history of the cori also incorporates a vast repertory of over 4,000 original works - sacred and secular, vocal and instrumental, solo and choral - little known today but recognized as key elements in the historical evolution of musical genres. Responsible for this phenomenon through their association with the ospedali grandi and the figlie del coro were such figures as Lotti, Legrenzi, Vivaldi, Hasse, Galuppi, and Cimarosa. It is their relationship to the ospedali and the concert series in the churches and music salons annexed to them that Dr Berdes explores. In the process she proves the significance of the cori as reflectors of a range of cross-disciplinary scholarship from the history of art and architecture to the history of culture and social policy, as well as medical care and aspects of women's, children's, and Venetian studies.

Amassing a wealth of information from primary sources, this book constitutes a repository of information and references for a multitude of new investigations. Above all, it will facilitate rediscovery, performance, and analysis of the repertoire commissioned for and first performed by the women musicians of the cori, a repertoire of unique richness which may be seen as the mirror of a lost Venetian civilization.

General

Imprint: Clarendon Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Oxford Monographs on Music
Release date: May 1996
First published: August 1996
Authors: Jane L. Baldauf Berdes (Honorary Fellow, Women's Studies Research Center)
Dimensions: 231 x 155 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 329
Edition: Revised
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-816604-7
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600)
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750)
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830)
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
Books > History > European history > General
Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750)
Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830)
Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600)
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LSN: 0-19-816604-4
Barcode: 9780198166047

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