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The Politicized Muse: Music for Medici Festivals, 1512-1537
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
The Politicized Muse: Music for Medici Festivals, 1512-1537
Contributors:
By (Author) Anthony M. Cummings
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
28th June 2016
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
780.94551109031
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
282
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
Weight:
567g
Description
During the years between the restoration of the Medici to Florence and the election of Cosimo I, the Medici family sponsored a series of splendid public festivals, reconstructed here by Anthony M. Cummings. Cummings has utilized unexpectedly rich sources of information about the musical life of the time in contemporary narrative accounts of these o
