Women musicians of Venice
Subtitle: musical foundations, 1525-1855
By: Jane L. Baldauf-Berdes.
Series: Oxford monographs on music
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Music -- Italy -- Venice -- History and criticism; Women musicians -- Italy -- Venice
Description: "This book opens a door long closed on an important era in the history of Venice. It presents, for the first time, an introductory, contextual study of three centuries of musical activity at the four major eleemosynary foundations of the former Republic of Venice: the ospedali grandi. It provides a comprehensive account of the institutional, social, religious, and civic dimensions of these welfare complexes, with particular reference to their musical subsidiaries, or cori." Jane Berdes proves the significance of the cori as reflectors of a range of cross-disciplinary scholarship from the history of art and architecture to the history of culture and social policy, as well as medical care and aspects of women's, children's, and Venetian studies.--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-297) and index.