Music and the Making of Medieval Venice

"Introducing a new geographical paradigm for the study of medieval music, this path-breaking book uncovers the role of music, liturgy, and ritual in building Venice's empire in the eastern Mediterranean, activating the city's material culture, and shaping its state-craft of the imagination"--

List of contents

List of figures; List of maps; List of tables; List of musical examples; Acknowledgments; List of manuscript sigla; A note on dating; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. An Audible Empire: 1. Echoes of empire: the Laudes in medieval Venetian Crete; 2. Unsilenced archives: icons, advocates, and the Akathistos hymn; Part II. The Fictive City: 3. Singing effigies: an annunciation drama for the Festa delle Marie; Part III. Relics and the Horizons of Musical Representation: 4. Narrative fragments: vespers for the apparition of Saint Mark's relics; 5. History lessons: matins for the apparition of Saint Mark's relics; 6. Sound documents: the midcentury chancery motet; Epilogue; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Jamie L. Reuland is Assistant Professor of Music at Princeton University. Her work on the intellectual and social history of medieval music has been supported by the ACLS, Fulbright Foundation in Greece, Medieval Academy of America, and Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. Previously, Reuland was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Stanford University.

Product details

• Authors: Jamie L Reuland, Jamie L. Reuland, Jamie L. (Princeton University Reuland
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2023
• EAN: 9781009425025
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0942502-5
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Music in Context
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history; Music, History: specific events & topics, European History, MUSIC / History & Criticism, Venice, Italy, Crete, Medieval History, History of Music, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, European history: medieval period, middle ages, European history: Renaissance, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, c 500 BCE to c 1500 CE (Italian ancient and medieval period), Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600), Medieval style, Byzantine style