Bonfire Songs Savonarola's Musical Legacy

Name: Bonfire Songs Savonarola's Musical Legacy
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ISBN: 9780198166696

ISBN-10: 0198166699

ISBN-13: 9780198166696

Edition: 1998

Authors: Patrick Macey

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Fra Girolamo Savonarola had a profound effect on the political and moral life of Florence in the 1490s, and his legacy lived on during the century after his execution in 1498, not just in Florence but in Ferrara and beyond the Alps, as far as Paris, Munich, and London. This study reconstructs contexts and musical settings for the popular tradition of sacred laude that were sung during the Savonarolan carnivals in 1496, 1497, and 1498. It further examines a broad network of patronage for the courtly tradition of Latin motets that provided elaborate musical settings for Savonarola's meditations on Psalms 30 and 50. The friar's success in Florence can be partially attributed to his adoption of…

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List price: $180.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/14/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 380
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English



List of Tables


List of Illustrations


List of Musical Examples


Contents of the Compact Disc


Abbreviations


Introduction



The Popular Tradition: Secular Song to Lauda



Ecce quam bonum: Savonarola as Prophet and Reformer



Florentine Music in Savonarola's Time



Laude for Savonarolan Carnivals and Other Celebrations, 1496-1498



Savonarola Against and For Music



Laude by Piagnoni in Veneration of Savonarola



The Art Tradition: Musical Settings of Savonarola's Meditations on Psalms 50 and 30



The Reception of Savonarola in the Sixteenth Century



Musical Echoes of Ecce quam bonum in France and Florence



Savonarola and the Dukes of Ferrara: Musical Reminiscences



Cardinal Francois de Tournon and Infelix ego by Simon Joly



Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este and Savonarolan Motets in Italy and France



Motets on Savonarola's Psalm Meditations in the Low Countries and Germany



Savonarola's Psalm Meditations in England


Epilogue



Contents of Serafino Razzi, Libro primo delle laudi spirituali (Venice, 1563)



Laude in the Concluding Section of Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Rossi 424



Savonarolan Laude in Biblioteca Marucelliana, Florence, MS C.262



Savonarolan Laude in Biblioteca Nazionale, Florence, MS Rossi 395



Savonarolan Laude in Biblioteca Nazionale, Florence, Magl. VII.365



Savonarolan Laude in Biblioteca Nazionale, Florence, MS Pal. 169



Savonarolan Laude in Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MS San Marco 429



Encomium of Savonarola by Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola and Lilio Gregorio Giraldi


Bibliography


Index