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19 - Music and feasts in the fifteenth century

from Part IV - Music and other arts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2015

Anna Maria Busse Berger
Affiliation:
University of California, Davis
Jesse Rodin
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
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The association of music-making with dining is not difficult to understand: both activities occur in "real time" and are dynamic or kinetic in nature. Both banqueting and music-making involve similar creative processes. Both originate in raw material: undifferentiated pitches and pitch durations in the case of music-making; more or less undifferentiated foodstuffs in the case of banqueting. The fifteenth century inherited particulars of the practice of convivial music-making from the earlier Middle Ages. Consistent with the larger program of the Italian Renaissance, convivial music-making in fifteenth-century Italy either imaginatively resuscitated ancient Greek and Roman tradition or reframed and reinterpreted medieval tradition, overlaying it with a classicizing veneer. A well-known poetic description of the wedding banquet for Francesco Sforza and Bianca Maria Visconti by Francesco Filelfo's contemporary Antonio Cornazano depicts a performance by the celebrated lutenist-singer Pietro Bono. Banqueting was a time-honored occasion for music-making during the fifteenth century.
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