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Honoring God and the City.

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
9780195342987, 0195342984
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2325129 bytes)
Pages
388\389
Time added
2019-05-08 23:39:20

Description

Honoring God and the City presents the first detailed history of musical activities at Venetian lay confraternities, societies that were crucial to the cultural and ceremonial life of Venice. Based on over two decades of research in Venetian archives, musicologist Jonathan Glixon traces musical practices from the origins of the earliest confraternities in the mid-thirteenth century to their suppression under the French and Austrian governments in the early nineteenth century. Glixon first discusses the scole grandi, the largest and most important of the Venetian confraternities. Scole grandi h.  Read more...

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