The Renaissance : from the 1470s to the end of the 16th century / edited by Iain Fenlon.
| Other author | Fenlon, Iain. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 1st North American edition. |
| Publication Info | Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 1989. |
| Description | x, 418 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Man & music Man & music. ^A667051 |
| Contents | Music and society / Iain Fenlon -- Rome: a city of rich contrast / Christopher Reynolds -- North Italian courts, 1560-1540 / William F. Prizer -- Aragonese Naples / Allan W. Atlas -- Paris and the French court under Francois I / Richard Freedman -- Lyons: commercial and cultural metropolis / Frank Dobbins -- The Habsburg courts in the Netherlands and Austria, 1477-1530 / Martin Picker -- Munich at the time of Orlande [Orlando] de Lassus / James Haar -- The Lutheran reformation / Robin A. Leaver -- 16th-century Nuremberg / Susan Gattuso -- Elizabethan London / Craig Monson -- The Spanish court of Ferdinand and Isabella / Tess Knighton -- 16th-century Antwerp / Kristine K. Forney. |
| Abstract | This volume treats the central aspects of Renaissance music: taking up the discussion during the late 15th century, and pursuing it to the end of the 16th. This was a time when music-making centered on the great courts of Europe, temporal or ecclesiastical; but it was also one that saw the growth of bourgeois music-making in the newly developing cities. The flowering--and the eventual withering--of the traditions of Renaissance polyphony are thus seen in a variety of social and political contexts. Each chapter is focused on the musical life of a particular city, with Dr. Fenlon's opening essay providing a wide context, in terms of patronage, humanism and reform, for the Renaissance musical scene. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 90224619 |
| ISBN | 0137734093 |
| ISBN | 0137734174 (pbk.) |