Title: Medieval ritual and early modern music
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.
Subjects: Church music, History and criticism, Laude, Opera, Sacred Music, Music, History - General History, Europe - Italy, History / Europe, Genres & Styles - Opera, History & Criticism - General, Religious - General, Lauda, Music, history and criticism, 17th century, Music, italian, Music, history and criticism, 16th century
Places: Italy