Francesca Caccini at the Medici court : music and the circulation of power /
A contemporary of Shakespeare and Monteverdi, and a colleague of Galileo and Artemisia Gentileschi at the Medici court, Francesca Caccini was a dominant figure of musical life there for thirty years. Dazzling listeners with the transformative power of her performances and the sparkling wit of the mu...
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| Publicerad: | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009 |
| Språk: | Engelska |
| Fysisk beskrivning: | xxxvi, 445 s. ill., musiknoter 27 cm. 1 CD (digital ; 4 3/4 in.). |
| Beskrivning: | CD innehåller stycken från Il primo libro samt två stycken ur La liberazione di Ruggiero, alla av Francesca Caccini |
| Bibliografi: | S. 411-428: Bibliografi |
| Medverkande: | Medverkande på CD: Emily van Evera, soprano ; Eric Milnes, harpsichord ; Andrew Parrott, organ ; Maria Cleary, double harp ; Fredrik Bok, theorbo and baroque guitar ; Erin Headley, lirone and viol ; Adrian Butterfield, baroque violin ; Mélisande Corriveau, viol. |
| Sammanfattning: | A contemporary of Shakespeare and Monteverdi, and a colleague of Galileo and Artemisia Gentileschi at the Medici court, Francesca Caccini was a dominant figure of musical life there for thirty years. Dazzling listeners with the transformative power of her performances and the sparkling wit of the music she composed for more than a dozen court theatricals, Caccini is best remembered today as the first woman to have composed opera. This book reveals, for the first time, how this multitalented composer established a fully professional musical career at a time when virtually no other women were able to achieve comparable success. Cusick argues that Caccini's career depended on the usefulness of her talents to the political agenda of Grand Duchess Christine de Lorraine, Tuscany's de facto regent from 1606 to 1636. Drawing on classical and feminist theory, Cusick shows how the music Caccini made for the Medici court sustained the culture that enabled Christine's power, thereby also supporting the sexual and political aims of its women. A compact disc of rare recorded samples of Caccini's oeuvre, specially prepared for this volume, further enhances the study. In bringing Caccini's surprising story so vividly to life, Cusick ultimately illuminates how music making functioned in early modern Italy as a significant medium for the circulation of power |
| Genre/Form: | Biografier |
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| Deweyklassifikation: | 780.92 |
| SAB-klassifikation: | Ijz Caccini, Francesca |
| ISBN: | 9780226132129 |
| Format: | Bok |
| Serie: | Women in culture and society
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Musik- och teaterbiblioteket
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B26.989 |
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