Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court

Music and the Circulation of Power

Suzanne G. Cusick (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

488 Seiten

2015
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-13213-6 (ISBN)

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A contemporary of Shakespeare and Monteverdi, and a colleague of Galileo and Artemisia Gentileschi at the Medici court, Francesca Caccini was a dominant musical figure there for thirty years. Dazzling listeners with the transformative power of her performances and the sparkling wit of the music she composed for more than a dozen court theatricals, Caccini is best remembered today as the first woman to have composed opera. Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court reveals for the first time how this multitalented composer established a fully professional musical career at a time when virtually no other women were able to achieve comparable success. Suzanne Cusick argues that Caccini's career depended on the usefulness of her talents to the political agenda of Grand Duchess Christine de Lorraine, Tuscany's de facto regent from 1606 to 1636. Drawing on Classical and feminist theory, Cusick shows how the music Caccini made for the Medici court sustained the culture that enabled Christine's power, thereby also supporting the sexual and political aims of its women.
In bringing Caccini's surprising story so vividly to life, Cusick ultimately illuminates how music making functioned in early modern Italy as a significant medium for the circulation of power.

Suzanne G. Cusick is professor of music at New York University.

Reihe/Serie	Women in Culture & Society Series WCS
Vorwort	Catharine R. Stimpson
Sprache	englisch
Maße	18 x 25 mm
Gewicht	851 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-226-13213-7 / 0226132137
ISBN-13	978-0-226-13213-6 / 9780226132136
Zustand	Neuware