Honoring God and the City : Music at the Venetian Confraternities, 1260-1806
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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.
Honoring God and the City : Music at the Venetian Confraternities, 1260-1806 ,Jonathan Glixon,Oxford University Press, USA,0195134893,Confraternities,Genres & Styles - International,History,History & Criticism - General,History and criticism,Italy,Music,Venice,European history: c 1500 to c 1750,European history: c 1750 to c 1900,European history: c 500 to c 1500,Music / History & Criticism,Music | Music History, Western | Early Music, Medieval, & Renaissance,Theory of music & musicology,Western music: periods & styles,c 1000 CE to c 1500,c 1500 to c 1600,c 1600 to c 1700,c 1700 to c 1800
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