Music and the Making of Medieval Venice

Contents

• List of maps
• List of figures
• List of musical examples
• List of tables
• Acknowledgements
• List of manuscript sigla
• List of abbreviations
• Note on dating
• Introduction
• Part I. An Audible Empire
• 1. Echoes of empire: the Laudes in medieval Venetian Crete
• 2. Unsilenced archives: icons, advocates, and the Akathistos hymn
• Part II. The Fictive City
• 3. Singing effigies: an annunciation drama for the Festa delle Marie
• Part III. Relics and the Horizons of Musical Representation
• 4. Narrative fragments: vespers for the apparition of Saint Mark's relics
• 5. History lessons: matins for the apparition of Saint Mark's relics
• 6. Sound documents: the midcentury chancery motet
• Epilogue
• Appendices
• Bibliography
• Index.