Honoring God and the City
Subtitle: Music at the Venetian Confraternities 1260-1806
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9780199711383
Description: Part I: The Scole Grandi. 1. For the Honor of God: The Origin and Nature of the Scoli Grandi. 2. Gathering Together: Ritual and Ceremony at the Scoli Grandi. 3. Singing for the Souls of Brothers: Musical Beginnings to the early 15th century. 4. Singing Praies to the Lord: The Early Use of Professional Musicians, 1445-1500. 5. The Best in the City: Salaried Musicians. 6. So Super-excellent: Music for the Annual Festa. 7. Only a few appear and often none: The Scole in decline, 1650-1807. Part II: The Scole Piccole. 8. Processions, vespers, songs, and organ: The Scole Piccole and Music to 1600. 9.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: A Note on the Venetian Monetary System; Abbreviations; Part 1. The Scuole Grandi; Part 2. The Scuole Piccole; Appendix 1. Processions and Ceremonies of the Scuole Grandi; Appendix 2. A Calendar of Religious Occasions Celebrated by the Scuole; Appendix 3. Musicians for the Festa of San Rocco, 1595-1634; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index;