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Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court: Music and the Circulation of Power. 9780226132136

Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court: Music and the Circulation of Power

University of Chicago Press. 2015

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  • EAN: 9780226132136
  • ISBN: 978-0-226-13213-6
  • Editorial: University of Chicago Press
  • Fecha de edición: 2015
  • Encuadernación: Rústica
  • Dimensiones: 18x25
  • Idioma: Inglés
  • Nº páginas: 448

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A contemporary of Shakespeare and Monteverdi, and a colleague of Galileo and Artemisia Gentileschi at the Medici court, Francesca Caccini was a dominant musical figure there for thirty years. Dazzling listeners with the transformative power of her performances and the sparkling wit of the music she composed for more than a dozen court theatricals, Caccini is best remembered today as the first woman to have composed opera. "Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court" reveals for the first time how this multitalented composer established a fully professional musical career at a time when virtually no other women were able to achieve comparable success.

Suzanne G. Cusick argues that Caccini?s career depended on the usefulness of her talents to the political agenda of Grand Duchess Christine de Lorraine, Tuscany?s de facto regent from 1606 to 1636. Drawing on Classical and feminist theory, Cusick shows how the music Caccini made for the Medici court sustained the culture that enabled Christine?s power, thereby also supporting the sexual and political aims of its women.

In bringing Caccini?s surprising story so vividly to life, Cusick ultimately illuminates how music making functioned in early modern Italy as a significant medium for the circulation of power.

CONTENIDO:

Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Note to the Reader

1. Figliuola del celebratissimo Giulio Romano
2. "To win the girl"; or, Francesca as Object of Desire
3. Power, Desire, and Women among Themselves
4. Musica to the Granducato
5. Who Was This Woman?
6. Voice Lessons: Introducing the Primo libro delle musiche
7. Being, Doing, and Allegories of Voice
8. After Arianna
9. La liberazione di Ruggiero amid the Politics of Regency
10. Performance, Musical Design, and Politics in La liberazione di Ruggiero
11. Cataclysms of Widowhood
12. Afterlives

Appendix A. Francesca Caccini?s Known Performances and Compositions
Appendix B. Letters of Francesca Caccini, 1610?1641
Appendix C. Cristoforo Bronzini, Della dignità e nobiltà delle donne, I-Fn, Magl. VIII. 1525/1, 54?77

Notes
Bibliography
Index



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