Honoring God and the City
Subtitle: Music at the Venetian Confraternities 1260-1806
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: December 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780195342987
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); Theory of music & musicology; Western music: periods & styles; Music; Music/Songbooks; Italy; Genres & Styles - International; History & Criticism - General; Music / History & Criticism; Religious - General
First sentence: Like most visitors to the Most Serene Republic of Venice, the English traveler Fynes Moryson, who was there in 1594, was struck by the splendor, piety, and generosity of the great confraternities, or scuole grandi.