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Music in the Castle: Troubadours, Books, and Orators in Italian Courts of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries Paperback - 1996 - 1st Edition

by F. Alberto Gallo; Anna Herklotz (Translator)

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Written by one of Italy's most eminent scholars of music, this book explores music's place in the cultural, artistic, and literary life of medieval Italian courts, paying particular attention to the influence of French culture on Italian artistic and musical traditions.

In the first of three elegant essays, Gallo examines the troubadours who traveled to northern Italian courts from Provence during the thirteenth century. He discusses their performance practices, the verbal and musical sophistication of their songs, and their role in the daily life of courtiers at Genoa, Ferrara, and Monferrato. The second essay concerns the now dispersed collection of the Visconti library at Pavia. Here, Gallo examines how this collection expressed the tastes of the fourteenth-century court of Giangaleazzo Visconti, how French arts were imported and imitated at Pavia, and the effects this had on music heard at the court. In the final essay, Gallo looks at the fifteenth-century tradition of improvised music, and especially the virtuoso lute player Pietrobono. Mythologized in literary circles of his day, Pietrobono becomes a point of departure for a discussion of the entire vision of music of Italian humanists, from Guarino Veronese to Aurelio Brandolini.

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The above is eulogy of court life in Monferrato at the dawn of the thirteenth century, taken from a letter Raimbaut de Vaquieras composed in verse and addressed to his lord and companion, the marquis Bonifacio I.

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  • Title Music in the Castle: Troubadours, Books, and Orators in Italian Courts of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries
  • Author F. Alberto Gallo; Anna Herklotz (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 154
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, U.S.A.
  • Publication date April 15, 1996
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780226279695 / 0226279693
  • Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.47 x 6.62 x 0.45 in (24.05 x 16.81 x 1.14 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
  • Category Music/Songbooks
  • Library of Congress subjects Music - Italy - 500-1400 - History and
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 95009257
  • Dewey Decimal Code 780.945

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