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by Anthony M. Cummings| 2015| 280 pages| 49| English

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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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Author:Anthony M. Cummings
Publication Year:2015
ISBN:9781400872732
Pages:280
Language:English
File Size:49
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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