TY - BOOK ID - 838679 TI - Music and patronage in the Sforza Court AU - Merkley, Lora L. Matthews AU - MERKLEY, Paul A PY - 1999 VL - 3 SN - 2503507069 9782503507064 PB - Turnhout : Brepols, DB - UniCat KW - Sforza [Family] KW - Music KW - Music patronage KW - Chapels (Music) KW - Musicians KW - Musique KW - Chapelles (Musique) KW - Musiciens KW - History and criticism. KW - Social conditions KW - Economic conditions KW - Histoire et critique KW - Mécénat KW - Conditions sociales KW - Conditions économiques KW - Sforza family KW - 780.945 KW - Arts Music Italy KW - Mécénat KW - Conditions économiques KW - Art music KW - Art music, Western KW - Classical music KW - Musical compositions KW - Musical works KW - Serious music KW - Western art music KW - Western music (Western countries) KW - Business patronage of music KW - Corporations KW - Maecenatism KW - Patronage of music KW - Performing arts sponsorship KW - History and criticism KW - Josquin, KW - Sforza family. KW - De Pres, Josquin, KW - Deprès, Josquin, KW - Des Prés, Josquin, KW - Des Prez, Josquin, KW - Després, Josquin, KW - Desprez, Josquin, KW - Dupré, Josquin, KW - Jodocus, KW - Josse, KW - Jusquin, KW - Pres, Josquin de, KW - Pres, Josquin des, KW - Prez, Josquin des, KW - Milan (Italy) KW - Mailand (Italy) KW - Milano (Italy) KW - Milão (Italy) KW - Mediolanum (Italy) KW - Comune di Milano (Italy) KW - Social life and customs. KW - Italy KW - 15th century KW - Josquin des Prez KW - Josquinus Pratensis KW - Jodocus Pratensis KW - Jodocus a Prato KW - Josquin Desprez KW - des Prez, Josquin KW - Desprez, Josquin KW - Des Prés, Josquin KW - Després, Josquin KW - Lebloitte, Jossequin KW - Lebloitte, Josquin KW - Music patronage - Italy - Milan KW - Music - Italy - Milan - 15th century - History and criticism KW - Musicians - Employment - Italy - Milan - 15th century KW - Josquin, - des Prez, - -1521 KW - Milan (Italy) - Social life and customs. KW - Muziekgeschiedenis KW - Italië KW - Milaan KW - 15e eeuw UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:838679 AB - The core of this study involves the enormous number of documents on musicians and musical patronage in the Sforza Court recovered in Milanese archives and elsewhere.The core of this history involves the enormous number of documents on musicians and musical patronage recovered in Milanese archives and elsewhere during the course of our research. This evidence bears on the performing organizations of the court chapel and the biscantori of the Duomo, polyphonic sources of both sacred and secular music, the monophonic observance of the liturgy, the recruitment of singers, circumstances and working conditions, requirements of clients, demands and preferences of patrons, the tangled process of the procurement of benefices, jailing, and even espionage. It pertains to the biographies and activities of musicians, including the most influential composer of the late fifteenth century, Josquin Desprez, who we know lived and worked in Milan for more than twenty years, including the entire period of Duke Galeazzo Sforza's renowned chapel of Franco-Flemish singers, one that contained the most illustrious musicians in Europe. Within the chapel a new genre of music was cultivated and musical works that exemplified the high renaissance period were composed and performed. Later, under Ludovico Sforza, Franchino Gafori wrote several theory treatises and compiled polyphonic sources of great importance. Findings in the documents have necessitated a re-evaluation of all three, including the revision of dates for a substantial part of the repertory. All historians are familiar with the long and well established tradition in which the Medici and the city of Florence have been cast as the vanguard of modernism. Although no one would wish to detract from the brilliant history of Florence, recently it has been argued that Milan was the first city state to develop modern government (along with its bureaucracy), and diplomacy, both of which pertain directly to the musicians and music of this study. ER -