The Music Room in Early Modern France and Italy

This interdisciplinary book investigates spaces for music-making in Early Modern France and Italy. Spaces specifically designed for music began to appear in private dwellings. While elite music-making became more specialised through the employment of paid musicians, music printing allowed new compositions to be diffused down the social scale.

Deborah Howard: Introduction: Music-making in Residenctiontial Space; 1. The Visual Dimension; 1: Patricia Fortini Brown: Seduction and Spirituality: The Ambiguous Roles of Music in Venetian Art; 2: Flora Dennis: When is a Room a Music Room? Sounds, Spaces, and Objects in Non-courtly Italian Interiors; 3: Tracy E. Cooper: The Place of Music in the Artist's Home; 2. The Spatial Dimension; 4: Sophie Pickford: Music in the French Domestic Interior (1500-1600); 5: Deborah Howard: The Role of Music in the Venetian Home in the Cinquecento; 6: Rebecca Norris: Women on the Edge: The 'Saletta delle Dame' of the Palazzo Salvadego in Brescia; 3. The Aural Dimension; 7: Mimmo Peruffo: Balance on the Lute: The Role of the Strings; 8: Michael Lowe: The Lute: An Intrument for All Seasons; 9: Raf Orlowski: Assessing the Acoustic Performance of Small Music Rooms: A Short Introduction; 4. The Intellectual Dimension; 10: Giovanni Zanovello: 'With tempered notes, in the green hills and among rivers': Music, Learning, and the Symbolic Space of Recreation in the Manuscript Modena, Biblioteca Estense, Universitaria A.F.9.9; 11: Guido Beltramini: Spaces for Music in Sixteenth-Century Paduan Noble Courts; 12: Michael Markham: Caccini's Stages: Identity and Performance Space in the Late Cinquecento Courts; 5. Courtly Contexts; 13: Laura Moretti: Spaces for Musical Performance in the Este Court in Ferrara ( c 1440-1540); 14: Iain Fenlon: Music Rooms in the Ducal Palace in Mantua: From Andrea Mantegna to Giovan Battista Bertani; 15: Tessa Murdoch: Queen Christina of Sweden as a Patron of Music in Rome in the Mid-Seventeenth Century; 6. The Development of Purpose-Built Spaces for Music; 16: Davide Bonsi: The Acoustic Analysis of Palladio's Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza; 17: Tarek Barreda: Music at Home: Spaces for Music in French Seventeenth-Century Residential Architecture; 18: Arnaldo Morelli: Spaces for Musical Performance in Seventeenth-Century Roman Residences