Howard, Deborah - The Music Room in Early Modern France and Italy

This interdisciplinary book investigates spaces for music-making in Early Modern France and Italy. Spaces specifically designed for music began to appear in private dwellings. While elite music-making became more specialised through the employment of paid musicians, music printing allowed new compositions to be diffused down the social scale.

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CONTENTS

Deborah Howard: Introduction: Music-making in Residenctiontial Space
1. The Visual Dimension
1 Patricia Fortini Brown: Seduction and Spirituality: The Ambiguous Roles of Music in Venetian Art
2 Flora Dennis: When is a Room a Music Room? Sounds, Spaces, and Objects in Non-courtly Italian Interiors
3 Tracy E. Cooper: The Place of Music in the Artist's Home
2. The Spatial Dimension
4 Sophie Pickford: Music in the French Domestic Interior (1500-1600)
5 Deborah Howard: The Role of Music in the Venetian Home in the Cinquecento
6 Rebecca Norris: Women on the Edge: The 'Saletta delle Dame' of the Palazzo Salvadego in Brescia
3. The Aural Dimension
7 Mimmo Peruffo: Balance on the Lute: The Role of the Strings
8 Michael Lowe: The Lute: An Intrument for All Seasons
9 Raf Orlowski: Assessing the Acoustic Performance of Small Music Rooms: A Short Introduction
4. The Intellectual Dimension
10 Giovanni Zanovello: 'With tempered notes, in the green hills and among rivers': Music, Learning, and the Symbolic Space of Recreation in the Manuscript Modena, Biblioteca Estense, Universitaria A.F.9.9
11 Guido Beltramini: Spaces for Music in Sixteenth-Century Paduan Noble Courts
12 Michael Markham: Caccini's Stages: Identity and Performance Space in the Late Cinquecento Courts
5. Courtly Contexts
13 Laura Moretti: Spaces for Musical Performance in the Este Court in Ferrara (c 1440-1540)
14 Iain Fenlon: Music Rooms in the Ducal Palace in Mantua: From Andrea Mantegna to Giovan Battista Bertani
15 Tessa Murdoch: Queen Christina of Sweden as a Patron of Music in Rome in the Mid-Seventeenth Century
6. The Development of Purpose-Built Spaces for Music
16 Davide Bonsi: The Acoustic Analysis of Palladio's Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza
17 Tarek Barreda: Music at Home: Spaces for Music in French Seventeenth-Century Residential Architecture
18 Arnaldo Morelli: Spaces for Musical Performance in Seventeenth-Century Roman Residences

Series	Proceedings of the British Academy