Music Patronage in Italy (Studies on Italian Music History, 15) (English and Italian Edition) - Hardcover

G. Ciliberti

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 2503595448 ISBN 13: 9782503595443

Publisher: Brepols Publishers, 2021

Synopsis

During the Renaissance and throughout the Baroque and Classical periods, musical production was linked to patronage. There are essentially two types of patronage. The first relates to political institutions, to public life, and aims to promote musical events that highlight the wealth and power of the patron in the eyes of rival courts and subjects - hence the birth of the court chapels. The second type belongs to the private sphere, in which the patron, of noble birth and as such in possession of high moral and intellectual virtues, has a discriminating artistic sensibility - hence the promotion of chamber music activities, the collecting of rare and valuable musical instruments, and the compilation and collection of musical manuscripts, possibly in deluxe or personalized copies. This musical production system lasted until the middle of the nineteenth century, when the advent of capitalism and the rise of the bourgeois class caused the decline of patronage. This book focuses on the various aspects of music patronage in Italy from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2503595448
• ISBN 13: 9782503595443
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 491
• Editor: G. Ciliberti