Honoring God and the city
Subtitle: music at the Venetian confraternities, 1260-1807
By: Jonathan Glixon.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
Subjects: Music -- Italy -- Venice -- History and criticism; Confraternities -- Italy -- Venice -- History
Description: This is a history of musical activities at Venetian lay confraternities. The book traces musical practices from the origins of the earliest confraternities in the mid-13th century through their suppression under the French and Austrian governments of Venice in the early-19th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-358) and index.