THE MUSIC ROOM IN EARLY MODERN FRANCE AND ITALY by Deborah Howard (Editor), Laura Mauretti (Editor) ( 9780197265055 )

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THE MUSIC ROOM IN EARLY MODERN FRANCE AND ITALY
SOUND, SPACE AND OBJECT

By:

Deborah Howard (Editor), Laura Mauretti (Editor)

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0197265057

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

14 June, 2012

Series:

Proceedings of the British Academy 176

Pages:

300

Description:

This interdisciplinary book investigates spaces for music-making in Early Modern France and Italy. Spaces specifically designed for music began to appear in private dwellings. While elite music-making became more specialised through the employment of paid musicians, music printing allowed new compositions to be diffused down the social scale.

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This interdisciplinary book investigates the use of secular space for music making in Early Modern France and Italy. The fact that many artists of the time also had musical skills underlines the close relationship between music and the visual arts. This era is remarkable for the growing importance of music in domestic life, ranging from elaborate court festivities to family recreation. In parallel with the emergence of the theatre as a separate building type, music-making in elite circles became more specialised through the employment of paid musicians, as opposed to amateur participation by the inhabitants and their guests. Meanwhile, however, music printing and the mass-production of instruments, especially lutes, allowed music-making to diffuse down the social scale. We see how spaces specifically designed for music began to appear in private dwellings, while existing rooms became adapted for the purpose. At first, the number of rooms specifically identifiable as 'music rooms' was very small, but gradually over the following 150 years, specialised music rooms began to appear in larger residences in both France and Italy.A major theme is the relationship between the size and purpose of the room and the kinds of music performed - depending on the size, portability and loudness of different instruments; the types of music suited to spaces of different dimensions; the role of music in dancing and banqueting; and the positions of players and listeners. Musical instruments were often elaborately decorated to become works of art in their own right.

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78 half-tones and colour photos

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