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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Kelley Harness (Associate Professor of Music, Associate Professor of Music, University of Minnesota)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 22.60cm Weight: 0.635kg ISBN: 9780197761595ISBN 10: 0197761593 Pages: 344 Publication Date: 22 November 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: To order  Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Note on sources Introduction Chapter 1. Ardens evexit ad aethera virtus: The Beginnings of the Balletto a cavallo in Florence Chapter 2. Musical and Dramatic Conventions in the Florentine Horse Ballets Chapter 3. Florentine Horse Ballets and Renaissance Chivalric Poetry, 1616-1652 Chapter 4. Applied Ariosto: Riders in the Florentine Horse Ballets Chapter 5. Displacing chivalry with mythology: Hercules and the Horse Ballets of 1652 and 1661 Chapter 6. Laboring for Hercules: The Cost of Conspicuous Consumption Chapter 7. Hercules at a Crossroads: The Final Medici Horse Ballets, 1671-1686 Appendix I: Alphabetical list of all riders in the Florentine horse ballets, 1608-1686, along with years of participation and role/squad Appendix II: Payroll of 2 July 1661 with subtotals for each occupation (FM115, fols. 224v-231v) Bibliography IndexReviewsHarness's highly original study of the horse ballet in Tuscany provides a rich introduction to the single most important musical genre for projecting Tuscan power in the seventeenth century. Deftly weaving insights from music, gender, and performance studies, she shows how these works sustained an image of the Tuscan state as a symbolically manly player on the world stage, and as a state whose bureaucratic class was exquisitely controlled by His Highness the Grand Duke. Brava, bravissima! * Suzanne G. Cusick, Samuel Rudin University Professor in the Humanities Emerita, New York University * No genre of musical theater can rival equestrian ballet for its public display of power: it scaled the absolutist messages of opera and court ballet to super-sized dimensions, and by using horses as its medium, it foregrounded the military skills of aristocratic riders. Singing of Arms and Men is an indispensable study of ten Medician balletti a cavallo that leverages Harness's astonishing command of Florentine archives. Harness pairs nuanced analyses of libretti and music with thorough consideration of production challenges, expenses, and the lives and labor of all involved. A must-have for scholars of early modern festivity. * Kate van Orden, author of Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France * Harness's study of the Florentine equestrian ballet is not only an important and innovative contribution to musicology, but a model of how creative and interdisciplinary research can change the way we look at the cultural world of an earlier civilization. Employing a wide range of sources and methods, Harness reveals how the genre functioned, how these works were prepared and performed, and how they were utilized by the Medici to achieve their political and social goals. * Jonathan Glixon, Professor of Musicology Emeritus, University of Kentucky * Harness's highly original study of the horse ballet in Tuscany provides a rich introduction to the single most important musical genre for projecting Tuscan power in the seventeenth century. Deftly weaving insights from music, gender, and performance studies, she shows how these works sustained an image of the Tuscan state as a symbolically manly player on the world stage, and as a state whose bureaucratic class was exquisitely controlled by His Highness the Grand Duke. Brava, bravissima! * Suzanne G. Cusick, Samuel Rudin University Professor in the Humanities Emerita, New York University * No genre of musical theater can rival equestrian ballet for its public display of power: it scaled the absolutist messages of opera and court ballet to super-sized dimensions, and by using horses as its medium, it foregrounded the military skills of aristocratic riders. Singing of Arms and Men is an indispensable study of ten Medician balletti a cavallo that leverages Harness's astonishing command of Florentine archives. Harness pairs nuanced analyses of libretti and music with thorough consideration of production challenges, expenses, and the lives and labor of all involved. A must-have for scholars of early modern festivity. * Kate van Orden, author of Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France * Harness's study of the Florentine equestrian ballet is not only an important and innovative contribution to musicology, but a model of how creative and interdisciplinary research can change the way we look at the cultural world of an earlier civilization. Employing a wide range of sources and methods, Harness reveals how the genre functioned, how these works were prepared and performed, and how they were utilized by the Medici to achieve their political and social goals. * Jonathan Glixon, Professor of Musicology Emeritus, University of Kentucky * Harness's highly original study of the horse ballet in Tuscany provides a rich introduction to the single most important musical genre for projecting Tuscan power in the seventeenth century. Deftly weaving insights from music, gender, and performance studies, she shows how these works sustained an image of the Tuscan state as a symbolically manly player on the world stage, and as a state whose bureaucratic class was exquisitely controlled by His Highness the Grand Duke. Brava, bravissima! * Suzanne G. Cusick, Samuel Rudin University Professor in the Humanities Emerita, New York University * No genre of musical theater can rival equestrian ballet for its public display of power: it scaled the absolutist messages of opera and court ballet to super-sized dimensions, and by using horses as its medium, it foregrounded the military skills of aristocratic riders. Singing of Arms and Men is an indispensable study of ten Medician balletti a cavallo that leverages Harness's astonishing command of Florentine archives. Harness pairs nuanced analyses of libretti and music with thorough consideration of production challenges, expenses, and the lives and labor of all involved. A must-have for scholars of early modern festivity. * Kate van Orden, Author of Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France * Harness's study of the Florentine equestrian ballet is not only an important and innovative contribution to musicology, but a model of how creative and interdisciplinary research can change the way we look at the cultural world of an earlier civilization. Employing a wide range of sources and methods, Harness reveals how the genre functioned, how these works were prepared and performed, and how they were utilized by the Medici to achieve their political and social goals. * Jonathan Glixon, Professor of Musicology Emeritus, University of Kentucky * Author InformationKelley Harness specializes in Florentine music and theater of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, situating the works she studies within broader social and artistic contexts. Much of her past scholarship has focused on women's patronage, including her book Echoes of Women's Voices: Music, Art, and Female Patronage in Early Modern Florence and articles dealing with musical representations of biblical women such as Judith and Saint Mary Magdalene. She is a past Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music and is a member of the musicology faculty at the University of Minnesota. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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