Women and Music in Sixteenth-Century Ferrara

List of contents

Introduction: Musica secreta; 1. Ferrarese convents and the Este in the first half of the sixteenth century; 2. Courtly women and secular music in Ferrara in the first half of the sixteenth century; 3. Princesses and politics: the Este women and music in the 1550s; 4. Actresses and Ariosto: spectacle and song in the 1560s; 5. 'Un modo di cantare molto diverso': Ferrara and the new singing of the 1570s; 6. Margherita's arrival and the convents in the first half of the 1580s; 7. Musical practices of the 1580s concerto; 8. Ferrara's final chapter: court and convents in the 1590s; 9. Afterlife in Mantua.

About the author

Laurie Stras is Research Professor of Music at the University of Huddersfield, where she teaches and researches sixteenth-century music, popular music, and music and disability. She is co-director of the ensemble Musica Secreta, with whom she has made four acclaimed recordings, including Lucrezia Borgia's Daughter, winner of the 2016 Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society.

Summary

With new information on four generations of women musicians, this book expands and alters the narratives that scholars and musicians have told about music in sixteenth-century Ferrara. A radical perspective on a familiar repertoire, it proposes a new way of thinking with consequences for music history and performance practice.

Product details

• Authors: Laurie Stras, Laurie (University of Huddersfield) Stras, Stras Laurie
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781108815482
• ISBN: 978-1-108-81548-2
• No. of pages: 415
• Series: New Perspectives in Music Hist; New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Miscellaneous; MUSIC / General, Italy, History of Music, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750), Sacred and religious music, Sacred & Religious Music