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Informationen zum Autor Donald C. Sanders is professor of music and Chairperson of Keyboard and Academic Studies in the School of the Arts at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. Klappentext In Music at the Gonzaga Court in Mantua, Donald C. Sanders examines the history of musical composition and performance at the northern Italian court of Mantua from the fifteenth century to the seventeenth century. Music is discussed in the context of the visual art, poetry, and theater that graced the court and of the Gonzaga family's interaction with the major European historical figures of the era. Sanders has combed the considerable literature on Mantua and sifted through archival records, weaving them into a fascinating account of the city's musical life during the glory years of the 'long' sixteenth century, all in the context of political, ecclesiastical, and intellectual developments of the time. It is certain to find a place alongside classic studies of the subject. -- Linda P. Cummins, Coordinator of Musicology, University of Alabama Mantua has long been known as one of the great intellectual and artistic centers of the Italian Renaissance. Now Donald Sanders places musical composition and performance in this context, in a thoroughly researched and engagingly written account centering on the period from the 1490 marriage of Francesco II and Isabella d'Este through the Counter-Reformation to the creation of opera at the time of Monteverdi. It is at once a scholarly achievement and a good read. -- Jan Herlinger, Louisiana State University Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and AbbreviationsIntroduction: Medieval Mantua and the Rise of the GonzagasChapter One: Flowering of the Musical Tradition under Isabella d'EsteChapter Two: The Counter-Reformation in Mantua: Cardinal Ercole and Duke GuglielmoChapter Three: Vincenzo I: Musical Zenith and the Decline of the GonzagasEpilogue: The Remnants of a DynastyAppendix One: The Este and Gonzaga familiesAppendix Two: GlossaryBibliographyIndexAbout the Author...
