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Manuscript Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Magliabechiana
XIX, 164-167 (FlorBN Magl. 164-7) has been the subject of
considerable scholarly attention. The prevailing assumption had
been that it was a Florentine source of the early sixteenth
century. More recently, it has been argued that its provenance is
not as easily determined as it first appears, and that there are
Roman connections suggested by one of its codicological features.
This monograph provides as full a bibliographical and codicological
report on FlorBN Magl. 164-7 as is currently possible. Such
evidence suggests that the earlier thesis is more likely to be
correct: the manuscript was copied in Florence c.1520. After a
review of the evidence for provenance and date, the repertory of
the manuscript is placed in its historical and cultural context.
Florence of the early sixteenth century is shown to have an
organized cultural life that was characterized by the activities of
such institutions as the Sacred Academy of the Medici, the famous
group that met in the garden of the Rucellai, and others. FlorBN
Magl. 164-7 is an exceedingly interesting and important source; an
eclectic repository not only of compositionally advanced settings
of Petrarchan verse by Rucellai-group intimate Bernardo Pisano but
also of sharply contrasting works, popular in character. It is
almost a manifesto of the sensibilities of preeminent Florentine
cultural figures of the sort who frequented the garden of the
Rucellai and as such is a revealing document of Florentine musical
taste during those crucial years that witnessed the emergence of
the new secular genre we know as the Italian madrigal.
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
latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
A comprehensive account of music in Florence from the late Middle
Ages until the end of the Medici dynasty in the mid-eighteenth
century. Florence is justly celebrated as one of the
world’s most important cities. It enjoys mythic status and
occupies an enviable place in the historical imagination. But
its musico-historical importance is not as well understood as it
should be. If Florence was the city of Dante, Michelangelo,
and Galileo, it was also the birthplace of the madrigal, opera, and
the piano. Music in Golden-Age Florence, 1250–1750 recounts
Florence’s principal contributions to music and the history of
how music was heard and cultivated in the city, from civic and
religious institutions to private patronage and the academies. This
book is an invaluable complement to studies of the art, literature,
and political thought of the late-medieval and
early-modern eras and the quasi-legendary figures in the
Florentine cultural pantheon.
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
latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
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