From Venice to Lerma: vocal and instrumental reception of Boccaccio. Music, epidemics and poetic canon (1500-1650).
Abstract
Between 1500 and 1650, severe epidemic episodes took place in northern and central Italy and transformed the political, territorial, social, economic and cultural reality of their states. Throughout this time the composers of madrigals increasingly integrated, as a response to the lived reality, the sung poems that close the journeys of Boccaccio's Decameron, thus configuring a canon that evolved as new epidemic episodes struck the population. The aim of this paper is to delimit and present for the first time the musical sources of Boccaccio's texts during the period examined, both in the vocal and instrumental spheres, as well as its place in the space of the sacred contrafacta as missa parodia; to configure the evolution of the poetic canon in music, and its dissemination –which reaches the court of Duke Lerma in Spain– and to analyze concisely the musical characteristics –facture, form and genre– as a creative, interpretive and expressive response to literary stimulus.
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