Music and the Making of Medieval Venice
Music played an essential part in raising the city of Venice and in founding the empire on which its fortunes would depend. This book focuses on a set of musical projects - played out in liturgy and civic ritual - that formed the city's history and framed and interpreted its unique material culture as it was in the process of taking shape. Jamie L. Reuland shows the state's most imaginative musical endeavors bound up with legal culture, stemming from the chancery's engines of historiography, or situated within the rich material environment of relics and reliquaries, mosaics and wall paintings, icons and statues. Arguing for music's technical ability to fabricate a sense of place and give form to history, Reuland recovers Venice's fascinating early propensity for a statecraft of the imagination, the consequences of which would be the better-known history of its material decay.
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Music and the Making of Medieval Venice
Music played an essential part in raising the city of Venice and in founding the empire on which its fortunes would depend. This book focuses on a set of musical projects - played out in liturgy and civic ritual - that formed the city's history and framed and interpreted its unique material culture as it was in the process of taking shape. Jamie L. Reuland shows the state's most imaginative musical endeavors bound up with legal culture, stemming from the chancery's engines of historiography, or situated within the rich material environment of relics and reliquaries, mosaics and wall paintings, icons and statues. Arguing for music's technical ability to fabricate a sense of place and give form to history, Reuland recovers Venice's fascinating early propensity for a statecraft of the imagination, the consequences of which would be the better-known history of its material decay.
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Music and the Making of Medieval Venice

Music and the Making of Medieval Venice

by Jamie L. Reuland
Music and the Making of Medieval Venice
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Music and the Making of Medieval Venice

Music and the Making of Medieval Venice

by Jamie L. Reuland

Overview

Music played an essential part in raising the city of Venice and in founding the empire on which its fortunes would depend. This book focuses on a set of musical projects - played out in liturgy and civic ritual - that formed the city's history and framed and interpreted its unique material culture as it was in the process of taking shape. Jamie L. Reuland shows the state's most imaginative musical endeavors bound up with legal culture, stemming from the chancery's engines of historiography, or situated within the rich material environment of relics and reliquaries, mosaics and wall paintings, icons and statues. Arguing for music's technical ability to fabricate a sense of place and give form to history, Reuland recovers Venice's fascinating early propensity for a statecraft of the imagination, the consequences of which would be the better-known history of its material decay.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781009425025
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/26/2023
Series: Music in Context
Pages: 300
Product dimensions: 6.89(w) x 9.88(h) x 0.87(d)

About the Author

Jamie L. Reuland is Assistant Professor of Music at Princeton University. Her work on the intellectual and social history of medieval music has been supported by the ACLS, Fulbright Foundation in Greece, Medieval Academy of America, and Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. Previously, Reuland was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Stanford University.

Table of Contents

List of figures; List of maps; List of tables; List of musical examples; Acknowledgments; List of manuscript sigla; A note on dating; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. An Audible Empire: 1. Echoes of empire: the Laudes in medieval Venetian Crete; 2. Unsilenced archives: icons, advocates, and the Akathistos hymn; Part II. The Fictive City: 3. Singing effigies: an annunciation drama for the Festa delle Marie; Part III. Relics and the Horizons of Musical Representation: 4. Narrative fragments: vespers for the apparition of Saint Mark's relics; 5. History lessons: matins for the apparition of Saint Mark's relics; 6. Sound documents: the midcentury chancery motet; Epilogue; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
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