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Women and Music in Sixteenth-Century Ferrara

  • Author: Stras, Laurie
In Women and Music in Sixteenth-Century Ferrara, Laurie Stras has produced a highly accessible and important volume - thoroughly researched and elegantly written - that throws open the clouded... More…

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Contents

  • Introduction Musica secreta;
  • 1. Ferrarese convents and the Este in the first half of the sixteenth century;
  • 2. Courtly women and secular music in Ferrara in the first half of the sixteenth century;
  • 3. Princesses and politics: the Este women and music in the 1550s;
  • 4. Actresses and Ariosto: spectacle and song in the 1560s;
  • 5. 'Un modo di cantare molto diverso': Ferrara and the new singing of the 1570s;
  • 6. Margherita's arrival and the convents in the first half of the 1580s;
  • 7. Musical practices of the 1580s concerto;
  • 8. Ferrara's final chapter: court and convents in the 1590s;
  • 9. Afterlife in Mantua.