HMU111H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: The Book Of The Courtier, Villancico, Frottola
1 Apr 2016
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Lecture 7 summary: national styles in the sixteenth century. The effect of music printing could be sold as commodity. Amateurs could now enjoy and purchase music. Amateur vocalists wanted to sing in own language (trend towards diverse national genres and styles) Domestic performing spaces performing at home (unlike traditional court setting) Baldassare castiglione"s il cortegiano (the book of the courtier), 1528. Customs and behaviour of the educated and refined individual, humanistic. Sprezzatura studied nonchalance (person who is so good at something it"s effortless) Women highly educated (free to study and become cultured) Castiglione: gentlemen, you must know that i am not satisfied with our courtier unless he be also a musician, and unless, besides understanding and being able to read music, he can play various instruments. Vernacular italian worthy for the composition of serious poetry, as opposed to latin. Bembo was known for praising the great italian poet francesco petrarca and inspiring a movement called petrarchism .
