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Biografisk notat
Iain Fenlon is Reader in Historical Musicology at the University of Cambridge and the editor of Early Music History. His publications include: Music and Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Mantua; The Early Sixteenth Century Madrigal (with James Haar); The Song of the Soul: Understanding 'Poppea' (with Peter Miller); Music, Print and Culture in Renaissance Italy; and Music, Ceremony and Identity in Counter-Reformation Venice (forthcoming, Yale University Press).... the richness and diversity of his field of vision become that much more obvious and valuable when some of his previously dispersed papers are encountered together in a single volume, as they are here.
Early Music
In the age of the Counter-Reformation, the streets, squares, palaces, courts, churches, nunneries, and Italian academies resounded with all kinds of music. Using an evocative mental technique similar to Ignatius of Loyolas visual composition of place, Iain Fenlon vividly reconstructs before our eyes the spaces and times of music, understood as a sounding sign of power, an allegory of celestial harmony, an image of antique myths, a celebration of the Deity, a stimulus to private devotion, and a symbol of collective identity.
Lorenzo Bianconi, University of Bologna