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Music and Ceremony at the Court of Charles V - The Capilla Flamenca and the Art of Political Promotion (Hardcover)
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Music and Ceremony at the Court of Charles V - The Capilla Flamenca and the Art of Political Promotion (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music
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Shows how Charles V used music and ritual to reinforce his image
and status as the most important and powerful sovereign in Europe.
The presentation of Charles V as universal monarch, defender of the
faith, magnanimous peacemaker, and reborn Roman Emperor became the
mission of artists, poets, and chroniclers, who shaped contemporary
perceptions of him and engaged in his political promotion. Music
was equally essential to the making of his image, as this book
shows. It reconstructs musical life at his court, by examining the
compositions which emanated from it, the ordinances prescribing its
rituals and ceremonies, and his prestigious chapel, which reflected
his power and influence. A major contribution, offering new
documentary material and bringing together the widely dispersed
information on the music composed to mark the major events of
Charles's life. It offers.a very useful insight into music as one
of many elements that served to convey the notion of the
emperor-monarch in the Renaissance. TESS KNIGHTON Mary Ferer is
Associate Professor at the College of Creative Arts, West Virginia
University.
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