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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 September 2018
      27 September 2018
      ISBN:
      9781316650455
      9781107154070
      9781108815482
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316650455
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.98kg, 412 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (244 x 170 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.73kg, 415 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Medieval and Renaissance Music, Music, Music Criticism, Music Performance
      Series:
      New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism (28)
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    Subjects:
    Medieval and Renaissance Music, Music, Music Criticism, Music Performance
    Series:
    New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism (28)
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    The musica secreta or concerto delle dame of Duke Alfonso II d'Este, an ensemble of virtuoso female musicians that performed behind closed doors at the castello in Ferrara, is well-known to music history. Their story is often told by focussing on the Duke's obsessive patronage and the exclusivity of their music. This book examines the music-making of four generations of princesses, noblewomen and nuns in Ferrara, as performers, creators, and patrons from a new perspective. It rethinks the relationships between polyphony and song, sacred and secular, performer and composer, patron and musician, court and convent. With new archival evidence and analysis of music, people, and events over the course of the century, from the role of the princess nun musician, Leonora d'Este, to the fate of the musica secreta's jealously guarded repertoire, this radical approach will appeal to musicians and scholars alike.

    Awards

    Winner, 2019 Otto Kinkeldey Award, American Musicological Society

    Honourable Mention, 2018 Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender Best Book Award

    Reviews

    ‘In Women and Music in Sixteenth-Century Ferrara, Laurie Stras has produced a highly accessible and important volume - thoroughly researched and elegantly written - that throws open the clouded window that has, until now, obscured our understanding of this chapter in music history … Stras offers a second life to the musical women of sixteenth-century Ferrara.’

    Rebecca Cypess Source: Music and Letters

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