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Warrior, Courtier, Singer: Giulio Cesare Brancaccio and the Performance of Identity in the Late Renaissance

Warrior, Courtier, Singer: Giulio Cesare Brancaccio and the Performance of Identity in the Late Renaissance

Wistreich, Richard

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Biographies GeneralGeneral MusicMartial Arts

ISBN10: 0754654141
ISBN13: 9780754654148
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 28 2007
Pages: 346
Weight: 1.46
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Giulio Cesare Brancaccio was a Neapolitan nobleman with long practical experience of military life. He was also a virtuoso bass singer whose performances were praised by both Tasso and Guarini. Richard Wistreich examines Brancaccio's life in detail and considers the mental and social world of a warrior and courtier with musical skills in a broader context. He also illustrates the use of music in the process of 'self-fashioning' and the role of performance of all kinds in the construction of male noble identity within court culture, including the nature and currency of honour, chivalric virtà and sixteenth-century notions of gender and virility in relation to musical performance

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