Giulio Cesare Brancaccio and the performance of identity in the late Renaissance
Autor/Ersteller:
Wistreich, Richard
Schlagwort:
11╧Geschichte 1500-1600
Schlagwort:
Italien
Schlagwort:
Gesang
Schlagwort:
Historische Musikpraxis
Schlagwort:
Geschichte 1500-1600
Schlagwort:
Biographie
Schlagwort:
Brancaccio, Giulio Cesare
Schlagwort:
Bassist
Schlagwort:
11╧Biographie
Schlagwort:
11╧Brancaccio, Giulio Cesare
Beschreibung:
Richard Wistreich
Beschreibung:
Literaturverz. S. [303] - 321. - Inhalt: Introduction. Part 1 Identity of a Performer: Napolitano y de buena casta; Sieur Jule Brancasse, gentilhomme ordinaire de la Chambre du Roy; Il più veterano tra' soldati. Part 2 Bass Song: Il basso del Brancazio; Per basso solo; Basso alla bastarda. Part 3 Performance of Identity: Poco preggio di soldato, ma anche di Corteggiano; Tra novelle sirene; Canti in dolce tenzon. Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
Beschreibung:
Giulio Cesare Brancaccio was a Neapolitan nobleman with long practical experience of military life, first in the service of Charles V and later as both soldier and courtier in France and then at the court of Alfonso II d'Este at Ferrara. He was also a virtuoso bass singer whose performances were praised by both Tasso and Guarini - he was even for a while the only male member of the famous Ferrarese court Concerto delle dame, who established a legendary reputation during the 1580s. -- Richard Wistreich examines Brancaccio's life in detail and from this it becomes possible to consider the mental and social world of a warrior and courtier with musical skills in a broader context. A wide-ranging study of bass singing in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italy provides a contextual basis from which to consider Brancaccio's reputation as a performer. Wistreich illustrates the use of music in the process of 'self-fashioning' and the role of performance of all kinds in the construction of male noble identity within court culture, including the nature and currency of honour, chivalric virtù and sixteenth-century notions of gender and virility in relation to musical performance. [Verlagsangabe]
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