This book offers an overview of all facets of musical life in sixteenth-century Venice. It addresses the city’s institutions (churches, confraternities, and academies) against the background of public and private occasions of music making. Supported by a generous collection of archival, literary, and iconographical sources, it treats both ceremonial life in the Serenissima and private forms of patronage. The 'Companion' also addresses the dense web of musical activity (from chapel masters and singers to instrumentalists and instrument makers to music printers and theorists) and the rich variety of styles and musical genres (the frottola, the madrigal, motets and masses, instrumental music, polychoral music, Venetian-language polyphony), broadening the geographical perspective beyond the Veneto to Istria and Dalmatia.
Author(s): Katelijne Schiltz (ed.)
Series: Brill's Companions to the Musical Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Europe, 2
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 576
City: Leiden
Acknowledgements ix
List of Illustrations x
List of Tables xii
List of Music Examples xiii
Abbreviations xv
Contributors xvi
Introduction: Mapping Musical Life in Cinquecento Venice / Katelijne Schiltz 1
Part 1. Musical Institutions
1. San Marco / Giulio M. Ongaro 19
2. Music at Parish, Monastic, and Nunnery Churches and at Confraternities / Jonathan Glixon 45
3. Parish and Monastic Churches: Civic Custom and the Quotidian in the System of Institutional Patronage / Elena Quaranta 79
4. Music and the Academies of Venice and the Veneto / Iain Fenlon 99
Part 2. Music in the Public and Private Space
5. Music, Ritual, and Festival: The Ceremonial Life of Venice / Iain Fenlon 125
6. 'Ridotti' and Salons: Private Patronage / Rodolfo Baroncini 149
Part 3. Musical Actors
7. The 'Maestri di Cappella' / Francesco Passadore
8. Silent Voices: Professional Singers in Venice / Paolo Da Col 230
9. Instrumentalists and Instrument Makers before c. 1550 / Bonnie J. Blackburn 272
10. Instruments, Instrument Makers, and Instrumentalists in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century / Jeffrey Kurtzman 292
11. Music Printing and Publishing in Cinquecento Venice / Sherri Bishop 321
12. From Aaron to Zarlino: Music Theorists in the Social and Cultural Matrix of Sixteenth-Century Venice / Rebecca Edwards 345
Part 4. Genres, Styles, and Cross-Cultural Traditions
13. Cori Spezzati in Composition and Sound / David Bryant 371
14. The Frottola in the Veneto / Giovanni Zanovello 395
15. Venetian Instrumental Music in the Sixteenth Century / Eleanor Selfridge-Field 415
16. Language, Style, and Subgenre in Venetian-Language Polyphony / Daniel Donnelly 440
17. Jewish Art Music in Late Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Italy / Don Harrán 469
18. The 'Other' Coastal Area of Venice: Musical Ties with Istria and Dalmatia / Ivano Cavallini 493
Selected Bibliography 529
General Index 536
