Music and the Making of Medieval Venice
Music and the Making of Medieval Venice
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USDMusic 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.
- Examines the musical culture of Venice within its Mediterranean empire
- Provides a new, Mediterranean geography for the study of medieval music
- Offers fresh interpretive frameworks for the study of medieval chant and related repertories
Reviews & endorsements
‘This is one of the most important and original books in medieval studies to appear in recent years. The history of music in Venice in the period from 1200 to 1400 has remained relatively unexplored until now. Reuland's discoveries show just how important a role music played in the political and colonial development of the city. The beautifully written book will be of equal interest to musicologists, historians, and art historians. A major tour de force.’ Anna Maria Busse Berger, University of California, Davis
Product details
October 2023Hardback
9781009425025
300 pages
251 × 175 × 22 mm
0.69kg
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Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of maps
- List of tables
- List of musical examples
- Acknowledgments
- List of manuscript sigla
- A note on dating
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I. An Audible Empire:
- 1. Echoes of empire: the Laudes in medieval Venetian Crete
- 2. Unsilenced archives: icons, advocates, and the Akathistos hymn
- Part II. The Fictive City:
- 3. Singing effigies: an annunciation drama for the Festa delle Marie
- Part III. Relics and the Horizons of Musical Representation:
- 4. Narrative fragments: vespers for the apparition of Saint Mark's relics
- 5. History lessons: matins for the apparition of Saint Mark's relics
- 6. Sound documents: the midcentury chancery motet
- Epilogue
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index.
