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Music and the making of medieval Venice
Title
Music and the making of medieval Venice / Jamie L. Reuland.
ISBN
9781009425032 (ebook)
9781009425025 (hardback)
9781009425018 (paperback)
Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xx, 280 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Summary
Music played an essential part in raising the city of Venice and in founding the empire on which its fortunes would depend. This book focuses on a set of musical projects - played out in liturgy and civic ritual - that formed the city's history and framed and interpreted its unique material culture as it was in the process of taking shape. Jamie L. Reuland shows the state's most imaginative musical endeavors bound up with legal culture, stemming from the chancery's engines of historiography, or situated within the rich material environment of relics and reliquaries, mosaics and wall paintings, icons and statues. Arguing for music's technical ability to fabricate a sense of place and give form to history, Reuland recovers Venice's fascinating early propensity for a statecraft of the imagination, the consequences of which would be the better-known history of its material decay.
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Cambridge core frontlist 2023.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 15, 2023
Series
Music in context
Contents
Part I. An Audible Empire. Echoes of Empire : The Laudes in Medieval Venetian Crete ; Unsilenced Archives : Icons, Advocates, and the Akathistos Hymn
Part II. The Fictive City. Singing Effigies : An Annunciation Drama for the Festa delle Marie
Part III. Relics and the Horizons of Musical Representation. Narrative Fragments : Vespers for the Apparition of Saint Mark's Relics ; History Lessons : Matins for the Apparition of Saint Mark's Relics ; Sound Documents : The Midcentury Chancery Motet
Epilogue.
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