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Author:   Deborah Howard (Professor Architectural History and Fellow of St John's College, University of Cambridge; Fellow of the British Academy) ,  Laura Moretti (Lecturer in Art History, School of Art History, University of St Andrews)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   176
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.792kg
ISBN:  

9780197265055

ISBN 10:   0197265057
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   14 June 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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Table of Contents

Deborah Howard: Introduction: Music-making in Residenctiontial Space 1. The Visual Dimension 1: Patricia Fortini Brown: Seduction and Spirituality: The Ambiguous Roles of Music in Venetian Art 2: Flora Dennis: When is a Room a Music Room? Sounds, Spaces, and Objects in Non-courtly Italian Interiors 3: Tracy E. Cooper: The Place of Music in the Artist's Home 2. The Spatial Dimension 4: Sophie Pickford: Music in the French Domestic Interior (1500-1600) 5: Deborah Howard: The Role of Music in the Venetian Home in the Cinquecento 6: Rebecca Norris: Women on the Edge: The 'Saletta delle Dame' of the Palazzo Salvadego in Brescia 3. The Aural Dimension 7: Mimmo Peruffo: Balance on the Lute: The Role of the Strings 8: Michael Lowe: The Lute: An Intrument for All Seasons 9: Raf Orlowski: Assessing the Acoustic Performance of Small Music Rooms: A Short Introduction 4. The Intellectual Dimension 10: Giovanni Zanovello: 'With tempered notes, in the green hills and among rivers': Music, Learning, and the Symbolic Space of Recreation in the Manuscript Modena, Biblioteca Estense, Universitaria A.F.9.9 11: Guido Beltramini: Spaces for Music in Sixteenth-Century Paduan Noble Courts 12: Michael Markham: Caccini's Stages: Identity and Performance Space in the Late Cinquecento Courts 5. Courtly Contexts 13: Laura Moretti: Spaces for Musical Performance in the Este Court in Ferrara (c 1440-1540) 14: Iain Fenlon: Music Rooms in the Ducal Palace in Mantua: From Andrea Mantegna to Giovan Battista Bertani 15: Tessa Murdoch: Queen Christina of Sweden as a Patron of Music in Rome in the Mid-Seventeenth Century 6. The Development of Purpose-Built Spaces for Music 16: Davide Bonsi: The Acoustic Analysis of Palladio's Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza 17: Tarek Barreda: Music at Home: Spaces for Music in French Seventeenth-Century Residential Architecture 18: Arnaldo Morelli: Spaces for Musical Performance in Seventeenth-Century Roman Residences

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This is an excellent and much-needed book. Early Music,

This is an excellent and much-needed book. * Early Music, *

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