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Echoing Helicon: Music, Art and Identity in the Este Studioli, 1440-1530

Echoing Helicon: Music, Art and Identity in the Este Studioli, 1440-1530

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The private studioli of Italian rulers are among the most revealing interior spaces of the Renaissance. In them, ideals of sober recreation met with leisured reality in the construction of a private princely identity performed before the eyes of a select public. The decorative schemes installed in such rooms were carefully designed to prompt, facilitate and validate the performances through which that identity was constituted. Echoing Helicon reconstructs, through the (re)interpretation of painted and intarsia decoration, the role played by music, musicians and musical symbolism in those performances. Drawing examples from the Este dynasty - despotic rulers of Ferrara throughout the Renaissance who employed such musicians as Pietrobono, Tromboncino and Willaert, and such artists as Tura, Mantegna and Titian - author Tim Shephard reaches new conclusions about the integration of musical and visual arts within the courtly environment of renaissance Italy, and about the cultural work required of music and of images by those who paid for them. Relying on Renaissance-era source material from a wide range of disciplines as well as new approaches derived from critical and cultural theory, Shephard provides a fresh look at the music of this ninety-year period of the Italian Renaissance. While much has been written about the studiolo by historians of art and architecture, it has only recently become a growing area of interest among musicologists. As the first English language monograph devoted to the music of the studiolo, Echoing Helicon is a significant contribution to this developing area of research and essential reading for both musicologists and art historians specializing in the Italian Renaissance.

Table of Contents:
Contents ; Introduction ; Chapter I - Music and Identity in the Studiolo ; The Studiolo "Type" ; Identity and Self-Fashioning ; Music in the Studiolo ; The Protagonists ; Chapter II - Leonello and the Erotics of Song ; The Belfiore Studiolo: Muses and Music ; Euterpe's Seductive Harmonies ; Eros as Ovidian Muse ; Leonello's Musical Poetics ; Pietrobono, Companion of Princes ; Chapter III - Isabella and the Decorum of Voice ; Making Isabella's Studiolo: A Summary ; Voice and Decorum ; Voice and Legitimacy ; Minervan Equivocations ; Voice and Agency ; Chapter IV - Alfonso and the Eloquence of Bacchus ; Making Alfonso's Studiolo: A Summary ; Music and Landscape ; Trouble on Parnassus: Bacchus' Masculine Eloquence ; Viewing, Performance and Identity ; Alfonso's Agency ; Chapter V - Conclusions: Living Music at Court ; Summary ; Decorated Space and Musical Meaning ; Objects in Performance ; Voice and Agency ; Imaging the Prince ; Figures ; Bibliography


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199936137
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Height: 178 mm
  • No of Pages: 184
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 512 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0199936137
  • Publisher Date: 09 Oct 2014
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Music, Art and Identity in the Este Studioli, 1440-1530
  • Width: 246 mm


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