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Honoring God and the City: Music at the Venetian Confraternities, 1260-1806

Honoring God and the City: Music at the Venetian Confraternities, 1260-1806

Glixon, Jonathan

Hardcover

Music ReferenceWorld Music

ISBN10: 0195134893
ISBN13: 9780195134896
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Mar 27 2003
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.64
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This is the first detailed history of musical activities at Venetian lay confraternities. Based on over two decades of research in Venetian archives, the book traces musical practices from the origins of the earliest confraternities in the mid-thirteenth century through their suppression under the French and Austrian governments of Venice in the early nineteenth century. The first section of the book treats the scuole grandi, the largest and most important of the Venetian confraternities, and the only ones to maintain musical establishments for long periods. The second portion of the book is concerned with the scuole piccole, the numerous less-important confraternities, sometimes as many as 300 of which were active simultaneously, located in churches throughout Venice. Appendices include an attempt to reconstruct a calendar of musical events at all Venetian confraternities in the early eighteenth century, demonstrating the vital role they played in the cultural and ceremonial life of this great city.

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