Jamie L Reuland

Music and the Making of Medieval Venice

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Introducing a new geographical paradigm for the study of medieval music, this path-breaking book uncovers the role of music, liturgy, and ritual in building Venice's empire in the eastern Mediterranean, activating the city's material culture, and shaping its state-craft of the imagination"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9781009425025
• ISBN-10: 1009425021
• Artikelnr.: 68271065

Autorenporträt

Jamie L. Reuland is Assistant Professor of Music at Princeton University. Her work on the intellectual and social history of medieval music has been supported by the ACLS, Fulbright Foundation in Greece, Medieval Academy of America, and Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. Previously, Reuland was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Stanford University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of maps
List of tables
List of musical examples
Acknowledgments
List of manuscript sigla
A note on dating
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. An Audible Empire: 1. Echoes of empire: the Laudes in medieval Venetian Crete
2. Unsilenced archives: icons, advocates, and the Akathistos hymn
Part II. The Fictive City: 3. Singing effigies: an annunciation drama for the Festa delle Marie
Part III. Relics and the Horizons of Musical Representation: 4. Narrative fragments: vespers for the apparition of Saint Mark's relics
5. History lessons: matins for the apparition of Saint Mark's relics
6. Sound documents: the midcentury chancery motet
Epilogue
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.