Author:
Cummings, Anthony M.
Imprint:Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2012.
Descriptionxviii, 300 p. : ill. (some col.), music ; 24 cm.
Note:Includes index.
Note:Table. Partial Genealogy of the Medici Family -- Introduction -- Part 1. Public and semipublic contexts, secular and sacred repertories. Music and the "Islamic other" : public festivals and triumphal entries ; The liturgical ceremonies of the Cappella Sistina -- Part 2. Private contexts, secular repertories. Renaissance neoplatonism and music : ad hoc occasions and the iconography of the Stanza della Segnatura ; Quotidian dining and formal banqueting ; The music for ad hoc occasions, quotidian dining, and formal banqueting ; Transvestism and the Carnivalesque at the Leonine Court : the feasts of San Giovanni and Saints Cosmas and Damian ; Music and theater -- Conclusion.
