Jonathan Glixon

Broschiertes Buch

Honoring God and the City

Music at the Venetian Confraternities 1260-1806

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Jonathan Glixon received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and has spent twenty-five years researching musical activities at religious institutions in Venice. In collaboration with his wife, Beth L. Glixon, he conducted an archival study of seventeenth-century Venetian opera. He lives in Lexington, Kentucky where he teaches musicology at the University of Kentucky.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780195342987
• ISBN-10: 0195342984
• Artikelnr.: 23525305