| FT-54647-06 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Gregory Richard Barnett | Music and the Courtly in Early Modern Bologna | 6/1/2007 - 7/31/2007 | $5,000.00 | Gregory | Richard | Barnett | | | | Rice University | Houston | TX | 77005-1827 | USA | 2006 | History, General | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 5000 | 0 | 5000 | 0 |
This project seeks to recover the influential culture of aristocratic celebrations in seventeenth-century Bologna that inspired its famous repertory of instrumental music. Drawing on both this music and archival sources, I focus on the tradition of self-celebration among Bologna's nobility who saw themselves as the founders and upholders of the city's distinctive culture: their births, weddings, and other signal events furnish the contexts for which the extant music was created. The larger picture depicts a surviving phase of Renaissance courtly culture in which a plentiful but fading Bolognese aristocracy bent its energies toward ever more elaborate courtly refinement and ceremony. |