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List of contents
Part 1 The Spaces of Music in Rome 1. Valeria De Lucca and Christine Jeanneret: Exploring the Soundscape of Early Modern Rome through Uberti’s Contrasto musico Part 2 Palaces and Theatres 2. Tracy Ehrlich: Drawing as a Performative Act: Carlo Marchionni at the Villa Albani, Rome 3. Barbara Nestola: Gesture and Acting in Roman Opera at the End of the Seventeenth Century Part 3 Devotional Spaces 4. Eric Bianchi: Was Man Made For the Sabbath? Sight, Space, and Identity in Jesuits’ Musical Life 5. Peter Gillgren, Theatricality in the Sistine Chapel 6. Huub van der Linden: Blinding Light and Gloomy Darkness: Illumination, Spectatorship, and the Oratorio in Baroque Rome Part 4 Streets and Squares 7. Brice Gruet: Sound and Sensorial Landscape: Early Modern Rome as a Full Urban Experience 8. Dinko Fabris: "Comprando la Maraviglia con l’Impossibilità" The Role of Music in the Space of a Torneo: An Unknown Score of I Furori di Venere (Bologna, 1639) Part 5 Villas and Gardens 9. Anne-Madeleine Goulet: Cultural Life at Villa Lante di Bagnaia (1683-1696): Family, Gardens, and Sociability 10. Giulia Romano Veneziano: The "Teatro delle acque": Music and Spectacle at Villa Aldobrandini during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Part 6 Crossing boundaries 11. Michela Berti: Inside and Outside a National Church: Music, Ceremonies, and Nationality in Early Modern Rome 12. Colleen Reardon: From the Villa to the Public Theatre: The Chigi and "Roman" Opera in Siena
About the author
Valeria De Lucca is a Lecturer in Music at the University of Southampton. Her interests include music patronage during the seventeenth century, early modern women, the circulation of music in early modern Europe, systems of opera production between court and public theatres, and the visual aspects of the operatic spectacle.
Christine Jeanneret is HM Queen Margrethe II’s Distinguished Fellow of the Carlsberg Foundation and works between the Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle and the Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles. Her research focuses on early modern music, with a particular interest for performance and staging, the body on stage, cultural exchanges and gender studies.
Summary
This book considers music and space as fundamental elements in the performance of identity in early modern Rome. Rome’s unique milieu offers an exceptionally wide array of musical spaces and practices to be explored from an interdisciplinary perspective.
