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Seachanges : music in the Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds, 1550-1800

Title
Seachanges : music in the Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds, 1550-1800 / edited by Kate van Orden.
Publication
  • Florence, Italy : I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies ; Rome, Italy : Officina Libraria, [2021]
  • ©2021

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Additional Authors
Van Orden, Kate
Description
319 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color), charts, facsimiles, music; 24 cm.
Summary
"Seachanges brings together original essays examining human and cultural mobility from a musical perspective. Musicians have always been migratory frontrunners, and musical encounters have always generated nodes of cultural complexity. But hearing past musicking that took place in diaspora and foreign lands requires new methodologies designed to center unsettled lives and ephemeral practices in history. Employing interpretive strategies from musicology, ethnomusicology, historical performance practice, sociolinguistics, and cultural history, the contributors intentionally complicate national and regional accounts of music from 1550 to 1800. Repertorial subjects include Spanish guitar music in Italy, Italian songs in Bohemia, Turkish songs in France, Jewish rituals on Corfu, Jesuit hymns in the Greek archipelago, and Ottoman court music; further chapters recover the experiences of indigenous musicians in colonial Latin America, the diaspora of Neapolitan singers, fictional cartographies of Baroque opera, and the careers of enslaved black musicians in Venice and pre-revolutionary Haiti. They promote a new theoretical vocabulary that coalesces around orality, voice, performers, and performance as matters to foreground in mobility studies. Seachanges illustrates how musical microhistories can address mobility at the macro level of Mediterranean and Atlantic studies while respecting the tempo of individual human lives and musical timeframes"--Page 4 of cover.
Series Statement
I Tatti Research Series ; vol. 2
Uniform Title
I Tatti research series ; 2.
Alternative Title
Sea changes
Subjects
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Music and mobility / Kate van Orden -- Part I: Orient Occident: the Mediterranean. Hearing Franco-Ottoman relations circa 1600: the chansons turquesques of Charles Tessier, 1604 / Kate van Orden ; Latin musical practices in the Greek isles: mapping early modern confessional plurality in the Eastern Mediterranean / Théodora Psychoyou ; Layers of song: migrations, identities, and synagogue music in Corfu, Greece / Francesco Spagnolo ; Istanbul: Dimitrie Cantemir, 1673-1723 / Jordi Savall -- Part II: Into Italy, out of Italy. '...la curiosità del personaggio': 'il Moro' on the mid-century operatic stage / Emily Wilbourne ; Alla [vera] spagnola: hearing Spain and playing guitar in early modern Italy / Cory M. Gavito ; Musician, Neapolitan, migrant: origins of the seventeenth-century diaspora of Neapolitan music and musicians / Dinko Fabris ; Voi che venist'armati: plurilingual singing in seventeenth-century Bohemia / Scott Lee Edwards -- Part III: The Spanish and French empires. Music and social ordering in colonial Latin America: stasis and mobility, sameness and difference / Geoffrey Baker ; Encounters in the margins: considering the local in the Lilly Library music manuscripts from sixteenth-century Guatemala / Philippe Canguilhem ; Gendered geographies in Lully's Proserpine (1680) / Olivia Bloechl ; L'amant statue: staging slavery in pre-revolutionary Haiti / Pedro Memelsdorff -- Contributors -- Photo credits -- Index.
Call Number
JMF 22-65
ISBN
  • 9788833671505
  • 883367150X
  • 9780674278400
  • 0674278402
OCLC
  • 1266221305
  • 1266221305
Title
Seachanges : music in the Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds, 1550-1800 / edited by Kate van Orden.
Publisher
Florence, Italy : I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies ; Rome, Italy : Officina Libraria, [2021]
Copyright Date
©2021
Type of Content
text
notated music
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
I Tatti Research Series ; vol. 2
I Tatti research series ; 2.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1500-1799
Added Author
Van Orden, Kate, editor, author.
Research Call Number
JMF 22-65
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