Medieval Ritual And Early Modern Music
Subtitle: The Devotional Practice of Lauda Singing in Late-renaissance Italy (Ritus Et Artes) (Ritus Et Artes)
Publisher: Brepols Publishers; Brepols
Published: March 12, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9782503520667
Subjects: Opera; Sacred Music; Music; History - General History; Europe - Italy; History / Europe; Genres & Styles - Opera; History & Criticism - General; Religious - General
Description: "The polyphonic lauda had its place of prominence in the lay devotional confraternities in Italian cities in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period. A main theme of this volume is the influence of art music in devotional contexts dominated by ritual functionality, where a modern aesthetic perspective is rarely employed. The authors raise fundamental questions about the validity of such a distinction between functional simplicity and aesthetic sensibility, where the latter is usually reserved for advanced, secular genres such as opera and the madrigal."--Jacket.