Music in Renaissance Ferrara 1400-1505: The Creation of a Musical Center in the Fifteenth Century

by Lewis Lockwood

Book Overview

Based on extensive documentary and archival research, Music in Renaissance Ferrarais a study of the rise of music at a vital center of Italian Renaissance culture, focusing on the patrons and musicians whose efforts gave Ferrara a primary role in European music during the fifteenth century. The successive rulers of the Italian city-state, members of the Este dynasty, brought to Ferrara some of the most important composers of the period, including...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019537827X
• ISBN13: 9780195378276
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"