‘You Will Take This Sacred Book’: The Musical Strambotto as a Learned Gift
| Autor: | Giovanni Zanovello |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of the Royal Musical Association. 141:1-26 |
| ISSN: | 1471-6933 0269-0403 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02690403.2016.1151230 |
| Popis: | The MS Modena, Biblioteca Estense e Universitaria, α.F.9.9 is by far the most lavish collection produced in the short-lived history of the musical frottola. In its pages, unassuming four-voice secular settings are preceded by citations from Pliny and Isidore and surrounded by dazzling illuminations of birds, fruits and plants. If splendour is never amiss in gifts, one must wonder what the relationship was between the components of this intriguing artefact. In this article I investigate the gift value of the source by examining the musical repertory and style in conjunction with its other features. I propose that musical strambotti enabled fifteenth-century educated Italians to perform symbolic gestures associated with ancient music. The repertory was also perfectly congruous with the poetic and decorative choices made for the manuscript. The examination of this peculiar source helps shed more light on the musical strambotto, its uses and its implied cultural associations. |
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