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Angels in the American theater : patrons, patronage, and philanthropy
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ISBN: 0809387433 9780809387434 0809327473 9780809327478 Year: 2007 Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press,


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The comedians of the king : opéra comique and the Bourbon monarchy on the eve of revolution
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ISBN: 9780226743257 022674325X 9780226743394 Year: 2020 Publisher: Chicago The University of Chicago Press

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In The Comedians of the King, Julia Doe traces the impact of Bourbon patronage on the development of French lyric comedy. The book presents the history of an understudied genre and the institutional structures that supported it, determining how changes in royal sponsorship, especially under Marie Antoinette, contributed to the genre's rapid evolution. The stylistic shift, coming at a time of tremendous cultural change, had sizeable political implications. Drawing on both musical and archival evidence, Doe demonstrates how comic theater was exploited in (and worked against) the construction of the monarchy's carefully cultivated public image. In essence, this book examines the aesthetic, institutional, and political tensions that arose when a genre with popular roots was folded into the Bourbon propaganda machine-and when actors trained at the Paris fairs became official representatives of the sovereign, or comédiens ordinaires du roi.

Cultivating music in America : women patrons and activists since 1860
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ISBN: 0520083954 0585371865 Year: 1997 Publisher: Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London University of California Press

The Maecenas and the madrigalist : patrons, patronage, and the origins of the Italian madrigal
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ISBN: 0871692538 9780871692535 Year: 2004 Volume: 253 Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : American Philosophical Society,


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Music at the Gonzaga court in Mantua
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ISBN: 1280659688 9786613636614 0739167278 9780739167274 9780739167267 073916726X Year: 2012 Publisher: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books,

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In Music at the Gonzaga Court in Mantua, Donald C. Sanders examines the history of musical composition and performance at the northern Italian court of Mantua from the fifteenth century to the seventeenth century. Music is discussed in the context of the visual art, poetry, and theater that graced the court and of the Gonzaga family's interaction with the major European historical figures of the era.


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Les Princes de Chimay et la musique : une famille de mélomanes au coeur de l'histoire, XVIe-XXe siècle
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ISBN: 2871932964 2804607046 9782871932963 9782804607043 Year: 2002 Publisher: Bruxelles Tournai Dexia banque La renaissance du livre

Musical patronage in seventeenth-century England : Christopher, first Baron Hatton (1605-1670)
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ISBN: 1859282784 Year: 1997 Publisher: Aldershot Brookfield (Vermont) Scolar Press Ashgate


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The musical sounds of medieval French cities : players, patrons, and politics
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ISBN: 9781107010611 1107010616 9780511862526 9781316620823 1316620824 9781139570831 1139570838 9781139569026 1139569023 0511862520 9781139572583 113957258X 9781139572583 1139888382 9781139888387 1139579401 9781139579407 1139573381 9781139573382 1283716275 9781283716277 1139569929 9781139569927 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Drawing upon hundreds of newly uncovered archival records, Gretchen Peters reconstructs the music of everyday life in over twenty cities in late medieval France. Through the comparative study of these cities' political and musical histories, the book establishes that the degree to which a city achieved civic authority and independence determined the nature and use of music within the urban setting. The world of urban minstrels beyond civic patronage is explored through the use of diverse records; their livelihood depended upon seeking out and securing a variety of engagements from confraternities to bathhouses. Minstrels engaged in complex professional relationships on a broad level, as with guilds and minstrel schools, and on an individual level, as with partnerships and apprenticeships. The study investigates how minstrels fared economically and socially, recognizing the diversity within this body of musicians in the Middle Ages from itinerant outcasts to wealthy and respected town musicians.

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