Music and Patronage in the Sforza Court

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Music and Patronage in the Sforza Court

PREZZO : EUR 90,00€

CODICE :
ISBN 2503507069
EAN 9782503507064

AUTORE/CURATORE/ARTISTA :
Author: ,

EDITORE/PRODUTTORE:


COLLANA/SERIE:
, 3

ANNO:
1999

DISPONIBILITA':
Disponibile

CARATTERISTICHE TECNICHE:
XXX-514 pages
18 b&w illustrations
Hardback with jacket
cm 21 x 27 x 4
gr 1760

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Publisher's description:
The core of this history involves the enormous number of documents on musicians and musical patronage recovered in Milanese archives and elsewhere during the course of our research. This evidence bears on the performing organizations of the court chapel and the biscantori of the Duomo, polyphonic sources of both sacred and secular music, the monophonic observance of the liturgy, the recruitment of singers, circumstances and working conditions, requirements of clients, demands and preferences of patrons, the tangled process of the procurement of benefices, jailing, and even espionage. It pertains to the biographies and activities of musicians, including the most influential composer of the late fifteenth century, Josquin Desprez, who we know lived and worked in Milan for more than twenty years, including the entire period of Duke Galeazzo Sforza's renowned chapel of Franco-Flemish singers, one that contained the most illustrious musicians in Europe. Within the chapel a new genre of music was cultivated and musical works that exemplified the high renaissance period were composed and performed. Later, under Ludovico Sforza, Franchino Gafori wrote several theory treatises and compiled polyphonic sources of great importance. Findings in the documents have necessitated a re-evaluation of all three, including the revision of dates for a substantial part of the repertory. All historians are familiar with the long and well established tradition in which the Medici and the city of Florence have been cast as the vanguard of modernism. Although no one would wish to detract from the brilliant history of Florence, recently it has been argued that Milan was the first city state to develop modern government (along with its bureaucracy), and diplomacy, both of which pertain directly to the musicians and music of this study.

Contents:
page XI INTRODUCTION AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
XXX Note on Currency Exchange
1 CHAPTER ONE: BENEFICES: INSTRUMENTS AND PROCEDURES
2 Requests and Ducal Allocation
7 Legal Rights of Collation
9 Ducal Expectatives
12 Obtaining Papal Authority
19 Papal Expectatives
22 Taking Possession
24 Duties of the Benefice Holder
25 Renunciation and Exchanges
28 Legal Expenses
33 CHAPTER TWO: RECRUITMENT OF PERSONNEL AND NETWORKS OF PATRONAGE
33 Recruitment from Savoy
41 The Neapolitan Recruitment Scandal
64 Recruitment in Rome
68 Recruitment from Northern Italian Neighbours
77 Recruitment Campaigns in France and Burgundy
80 Recruitment from within the Duchy: the Singers of the Bishop of Como
87 CHAPTER THREE: GALEAZZO MARIA SFORZA AND THE SINGERS OF HIS COURT
87 [1473]
93 Occasions for Performance
100 Personnell and Payroll
103 Desire for Imperial Investiture and the Expansion of the Retinue
105 Passes and Licences issued in 1473
105 Notarial Acts Undertaken by the Singers in 1473
106 [1474]
110 Diplomatic Events and Other Occasions for Performance
115 Passes, Licences and Warrants issued to Singers in 1474
116 Notarial Acts Undertaken by the Singers in 1474
118 [1475]
123 Accounts of Secular Music
125 Benefìces, Indulgences and Ducal Elevation
127 Other Passes, Warrants and Licences issued to Singers in 1475
128 Notarial Acts Undertaken by the Singers in 1475
129 [1476]
135 The Diplomatic Crisis of 1476
141 Passes, Licences and Warrants issued in 1476
141 The Assassination
148 Notarial Acts Undertaken by the Singers in 1476
155 CHAPTER FOUR: ENCLOSURE AND PROVISIONS
163 Infirmary
164 Private Matters
167 Instrumentalists and Instrument Makers
174 Books
177 Orders for Clothing
186 Provision for Travelling with the Court
193 Sacristan of the Ducal Chapel
197 CHAPTER FIVE: WHO WAS IUDOCHUS DE PICARDIA?
217 CHAPTER SIX: ORATIONS AND MUSIC FOR ST. GEORGE DAY
229 The Order of the Golden Fleece
235 CHAPTER SEVEN: THE CHAPEL IN BONA'S COURT, 1477-1488
239 Musicians and Diplomacy
242 Reconstruction of Chapel Personnel
253 The Departure of Iohannes Cordier
257 The Assignment of Church Positions under the Duchess
258 Benefice Disputes
260 Instrumentalists and Masters of Dance in the Court
263 The Extension of Ducal Licences, Privileges, and Gifts
264 The Ducal Ceremonial
267 The Fall of Cicco Simonetta
271 Ludovico and Ascanio
277 The Enclosure under Bona and Giangaleazzo
283 Patronage of the Soldiers of St. Anthony
299 CHAPTER EIGHT: HUMANISM AND SPECTACLE
305 Spectacle
321 CHAPTER NINE: THE LIBRONI, THE MOTETTI MISSALES, AND POLYPHONIC MASS MOVEMENTS
322 Documentary Evidence for the Compilation of the Libroni
332 Structure of the Core Repertoire of Motet Cycles
353 Mass Cycles Outside of the Core Repertoire
359 CHAPTER TEN: CIVIC MATTERS, STATECRAFT, AND THE ROSTER OF SINGERS DURING LUDOVICO'S RULE
359 The Court and Civic Practice
370 Salary Rolls 1480
371 Cantores Ducales
372 Tubete Ducales
372 Piferi et Citariste
374 [1482]
376 [1483]
377 [1484]
380 [1485]
380 [1486]
381 [1487]
383 [1488]
386 [1489]
388 [1490]
390 [1491]
391 [1492]
393 [1493]
394 [1494]
395 [1495]
397 [1496]
403 [1497]
403 [1498]
405 [1499]
405 After the Fall of the Duchy
406 Role of the Chapel in Affairs of State
419 Spectacles, Representations and Weddings
422 Households
425 CHAPTER ELEVEN: JOSSEQUIN LEBOLITTE DIT DESPREZ, SON OF GOSSARD
426 Biography
444 Ascanio as Patron
456 Inheritance in Condé-sur-Escaut and Family Ties
466 Sources and Repertoire
491 BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDICES
509 Singers in the Milanese Ducal Chapel
511 Other Musicians
511 Rulers and Ruling Families
512 Ambassadors and Prominent Milanese Courties and Officials
514 General Index


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