Renaissance music and culture in Croatia /
This book is the first more comprehensive effort dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of Renaissance music in Croatia. On the pages of this book the dramatis personae comprise priests and heretics, noblemen and tradesmen, men of learning and illiterate fishermen, ladies from high society and cou...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the Croatian. |
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Turnhout, Belgium :
Brepols Publishers,
[2015]
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| Series: | Collection "Epitome musical."
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| Summary: | This book is the first more comprehensive effort dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of Renaissance music in Croatia. On the pages of this book the dramatis personae comprise priests and heretics, noblemen and tradesmen, men of learning and illiterate fishermen, ladies from high society and courtesans, printers and scribes, patrons of the arts and their protégés, in other words, people participating in one way or another in cultural and artistic events. In spite of grave political problems during the 15th and 16th centuries (the Turks established their power in the north and eastern regions), the Croatian soil was a theater of vivid musical life. The variety of cultural influences (most important coming from Italy) has been reflected in some specific phenomena in the Croatian cultural and musical life. Among them are the Catholic liturgy in the native language, the Petrarchan poetry in the Italian language, with which some Dalmatian poets managed to attract the attention of contemporary Italian composers, and finally, the fact that the Croatian coastland was the extreme southeastern point reached by the widely spreading Netherlandish Renaissance polyphony. This book focuses on identifying, contextualising and presenting this less known European musical heritage to the wider international public. |
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| Physical Description: | 356 pages : illustrations, maps, music, facsimiles ; 29 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-341) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9782503566412 2503566413 |