Preparing your PDF for download There was a problem with your download, please contact the server administrator. In Italy during the late cinquecento , printed music could be found not only in the homes of the wealthy or the music professional, but also in lay homes, courts, and academies. No longer confined to the salons of the elite, music took on the role of social play and recreation.
Paul Schleuse examines these new musical forms through a study of the music books of Italian priest, poet, and composer, Orazio Vecchi. Composed for minor patrons and the wider music-buying public, Vecchi's madrigals took as their subjects game-playing, drinking, hunting, battles, and the life of the street. Schleuse looks at how music and game-playing allowed singers and performers to play the roles of exemplary pastoral characters and also comic, foreign, and "rustic" others in ways that defined and ultimately reinforced social norms of the times.
His findings reposition Orazio Vecchi as one of the most innovative composers of the late 16th century. Introduction 1. Intertextuality in Vecchi's Canzonettas and Madrigals, 3. Competition and Conversation: Games as Music 6.
Notes Works Cited Index. It sheds light on the work of one of the most notableβif underestimatedβauthors of this period, Orazio Vecchi, and, most importantly, it restores the centrality of recreational singing, placing it in the context of the fascinating early modern discourse on games and entertainment. It is strongly recommended to anyone with an interest in the music and culture of early modern Italy.
Singing Games in Early Modern Italy is a well-argued, well-written work that offers new understandings of the music of one of the most important composers of the early modern era. Description Contents Authors Praise Feature In Italy during the late cinquecento , printed music could be found not only in the homes of the wealthy or the music professional, but also in lay homes, courts, and academies. Connect with the author on Twitter.
