Eleonora BECK
Singing in the Garden:
Music and culture in the Tuscan Trecento
edizione (Bibliotheca Musicologica-Universität Innsbruck, 3)
pagine 179
formato 16×23 • brossura
(in lingua inglese)
"Singing in the Garden" has an interdisciplinary vision of music history: drawing on such masterpieces as Boccaccio's "Decameron" and the frescos of Ambrogio Lorenzetti and Andrea di Bonaiuto, Eleonora Beck explores the meaning of music for the society of the period.
The picture that emerges from her study is of a musical culture that was clearly susceptible to the broad influences of its day and highly distinctive in both the sacred and secular domains, as the masterly compositions of Francesco Landini and Lorenzo Masini well illustrate.
Beck, Eleonora M. Singing in the Garden. Music and Culture in Trecento Tuscany.
In-8, 179 pp., ill., paperback. English texts. Ed. by Timan Seebass, (Bibliotheca Musicologica, University of Innsbruck, I)
This book has an interdisciplinary vision of music history, introducing the fields of painting, Literature and philosophy to create a rich backround to Trecento music. Drawing on such masterpieces as Boccaccio's Decameron and the frescos of Lorenzetti (Palazzo Pubblico, Siena) and Bonaiuto (Santa Maria Novella, Florence) Eleonora Beck explores the meaning of music for the society of this period. The picture that emerges from her study is of a musical culture that was clearly susceptible to the broad influences of its day and - as the masterly compositions of Francesco Landini and Lorenzo Masini well illustrate - highly distinctive in both the sacred and secular domains.