Review
The Sounds of Milan, 1584 to 1650
Seventeenth-century news, Vol.63(3/4), pp.213-215
10/01/2005
Abstract
The study of North Italian music of the early seventeenth century has blossomed on both sides of the Atlantic over the past ten years, but monographs devoted to urban music of the period are still less numerous than those dedicated to the topic for the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. [...]Robert Kendrick's The Sounds of Milan, 1584-1650, comes as an especially welcome addition to the scholarship on North Italian Music of the period. The overarching theme of music within its sounding space is particularly strong in the first third of the book, which is devoted to the Milanese institutions that boasted musical chapels of noteworthy size and quality, but loses some of its force in the second section, which considers a number of practical issues related to civic music-making, including plainchant rites, civic and ecclesiastical ritual, the training of Milanese musicians, the content of locally produced theoretical treatises, and the Milanese music-printing industry. [...]scholars of North Italian culture will find Robert Kendrick's The Sounds of Milan, 1584-1650 not only a highly useful reference book but also an engaging and thought-provoking introduction to the role of music in urban life in seventeenth-century Milan.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Sounds of Milan, 1584 to 1650
- Creators
- Christine Getz
- Resource Type
- Review
- Publication Details
- Seventeenth-century news, Vol.63(3/4), pp.213-215
- Publisher
- Seventeenth-Century News
- ISSN
- 0037-3028
- eISSN
- 2332-1369
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/01/2005
- Academic Unit
- Liberal Arts and Science Admin; Music
- Record Identifier
- 9984399482202771
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