Music and Culture in Late Renaissance Italy

By: Iain Fenlon

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Hardcover | 1 February 2003

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This collection of essays is unified by a number of concerns: one is the way in which musical activity of all kinds was instrumentalized by those in power, in Italy, during the Sixteenth Century. A second expressed through the chornological concentration on the second half of the century, is with a period which is still often regarded as one of decline and degeneracy after the achievements of the Quattrocento and the decades before the calameta d'Italia. This book implicitly argues that Italian culture did not lose its vigor after 1530, but underwent a transformation, as both individuals and institutions reacted to new economic, political, and religious circumstances.

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Fortunately few reviewers,if any, would find Ian Fenlon's book hard to read, since his arguments are expressed in a graceful propse that renders his subject matter entirely accessible to readers.. . . Fenlon has established himself, over two decaed, as one of the ablest practiotioners in historical musicologyand multidisciplinary studies. . . .produces rich, provocative results for readers. . .coleagues from other disciplines interested in the place of music in early modern Italian society could hardly do better than consult Fenlon's stimulating and evocative essays. . . .Fenlon's essays exemplify and unusually creative immaginative engagement with musico-historical materials. As offerings not only to fellow musicologists but also to those in allied disciplines, they are among the finest examples of the discipline's art and craft; they are recommended with uncommon enthusiasm/sAnthony M. Cummings?/d 11/08/05

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