Women and Music in Sixteenth-Century Ferrara

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.