Music and Culture in Late Renaissance Italy

by Iain Fenlon

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 calam t d'Italia...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198164440
• ISBN13: 9780198164449
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.5"