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  3. Women and Music in Sixteenth-Century Ferrara
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
September 2018
Print publication year:
2018
Online ISBN:
9781316650455
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316650455
Subjects:
Medieval and Renaissance Music, Music, Music Criticism, Music Performance
Series:
New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism (28)
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Book description

The musica secreta or concerto delle dame of Duke Alfonso II d'Este, an ensemble of virtuoso female musicians that performed behind closed doors at the castello in Ferrara, is well-known to music history. Their story is often told by focussing on the Duke's obsessive patronage and the exclusivity of their music. This book examines the music-making of four generations of princesses, noblewomen and nuns in Ferrara, as performers, creators, and patrons from a new perspective. It rethinks the relationships between polyphony and song, sacred and secular, performer and composer, patron and musician, court and convent. With new archival evidence and analysis of music, people, and events over the course of the century, from the role of the princess nun musician, Leonora d'Este, to the fate of the musica secreta's jealously guarded repertoire, this radical approach will appeal to musicians and scholars alike.

Awards

Winner, 2019 Otto Kinkeldey Award, American Musicological Society

Honourable Mention, 2018 Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender Best Book Award

Reviews

‘In Women and Music in Sixteenth-Century Ferrara, Laurie Stras has produced a highly accessible and important volume - thoroughly researched and elegantly written - that throws open the clouded window that has, until now, obscured our understanding of this chapter in music history … Stras offers a second life to the musical women of sixteenth-century Ferrara.’

Rebecca Cypess Source: Music and Letters

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