Far il buon concerto: Music at the Venetian Scuole Piccole in the Seventeenth Century
Glixon, Jonathan
Journal of Seventeenth Century Music, Vol. 1, No.1 (1995)
Abstract
Accounts of sacred musical life in Italian cities have usually tended to focus on the activities of the court or cathedral chapel while ignoring other institutions or considering them only in passing. Though the central chapel was certainly the most prestigious of the musical establishments in these cities, recent work has shown that other institutions were vital contributors to cultural life, bringing polyphonic music to great numbers of citizens who might never have had the opportunity to hear court or cathedral musicians. In some cases, these smaller institutions were, in fact, centers for a separate and distinct musical culture that also had significant influence on the better known chapels. The Florentine laudesi companies, the subject of a study by Blake Wilson, offer a prime example of this phenomenon: their cultivation of the Italian lauda provided an important counterpoint to the Latin musical culture of the Duomo and other city-supported churches.
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