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English Madrigals on the Jesuit Stage
Musical Theatre of Martyrdom at the Venerable English College, Rome
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
272 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
Throughout the early Stuart period, Catholic seminarians at the Venerable English College, Rome, staged elaborate religious plays for multinational audiences on a nearly annual basis, typically Neo-Latin dramas about martyred English saints. This study shares original archival findings to critically reconstruct the many varieties of music featured in these productions, from French solo song to English madrigals and balletts. This collection of dramatic music includes surviving evidence of English compositions performed in seventeenth-century Italy. The author argues that by embracing foreign musical cultures while also deploying their own musical talents, repertoires, practices, and patronage in service to dramatizations of Catholic martyrdom, this English community was uniquely positioned to build cultural, social, and political connections between Britain and the European Continent during a significant period of rising English hegemony in the Mediterranean region and wider world.
English Madrigals on the Jesuit Stage
Musical Theatre of Martyrdom at the Venerable English College, Rome
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
783 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
Throughout the early Stuart period, Catholic seminarians at the Venerable English College, Rome, staged elaborate religious plays for multinational audiences on a nearly annual basis, typically Neo-Latin dramas about martyred English saints. This study shares original archival findings to critically reconstruct the many varieties of music featured in these productions, from French solo song to English madrigals and balletts. This collection of dramatic music includes surviving evidence of English compositions performed in seventeenth-century Italy. The author argues that by embracing foreign musical cultures while also deploying their own musical talents, repertoires, practices, and patronage in service to dramatizations of Catholic martyrdom, this English community was uniquely positioned to build cultural, social, and political connections between Britain and the European Continent during a significant period of rising English hegemony in the Mediterranean region and wider world.
2 268 kr
Kommande
The distinctive relationship between Stuart England and the Republic of Venice played a vital role in some of the most important developments of the early modern period, including the globalisation of maritime trading empires and the increasing repudiation of papal power. Stuart Serenissima explores this significant moment of heightened exchange between the two states, bringing together – for the first time in a single collection – insights from leading scholars in the fields of cultural history, economic history, musicology, political theory, art history, and literary studies. Across the volume’s nine chapters, the authors make the collective case that the true extent and significance of seventeenth-century Anglo-Venetian relations can only be understood from a multidisciplinary perspective. The collection offers a nuanced account of interactions between subjects of both polities, analysing intra-confessional division as a driver of European politics, illuminating the lesser studied contributions of women and non-elite agents, and highlighting the cultural brokerage of intermediaries who unsettle notions of a purely bilateral Anglo-Venetian rapport. By locating the Anglo-Venetian Seicento within a broader web of transnational and global connections, the authors identify the early modern Mediterranean as a site of consequential imperial experiments and set the agenda for future Anglo-Venetian research.