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Women and music in sixteenth-century Ferrara /

The musica secreta or concerto delle dame of Duke Alfonso II d'Este, an ensemble of virtuoso female musicians that performed behind closed doors at the castello in Ferrara, is well-known to music history. Their story is often told by focussing on the Duke's obsessive patronage and the excl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stras, Laurie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom : New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Colección:New perspectives in music history and criticism.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Musica secreta
  • Ferrarese convents and the Este in the first half of the sixteenth century
  • Courtly women and secular music in Ferrara in the first half of the sixteenth century
  • Princesses and politics : the Este women and music in the 1550s
  • Actresses and Ariosto : spectacle and song in the 1560s
  • "Un modo di cantare molto diverso" : Ferrara and the new singing of the 1570s
  • Margherita's arrival and the convents in the first half of the 1580s
  • Musical practices of the 1580s Concerto
  • Ferrara's final chapter : court and convents in the 1590s
  • Afterlife in Mantua.