TY - CHAP
T1 - Music as aristocratic pastime in the Stato da Mar
T2 - The Cypriot madrigals of Giandomenico Martoretta
AU - Papacostas, Tassos
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Giandomenico Martoretta’s Terzo libro di madrigali a quattro voci (1554) contains several pieces dedicated to Cypriot aristocrats and provides unparalleled even if limited evidence for musical life in mid sixteenth-century Cyprus under Venetian rule. It also sheds light on the wider cultural context including linguistic diversity, familiarity with Italian literary production and musical aptitude. Most importantly, it demonstrates that the island’s elites actively and consciously pursued a lifestyle that brought them closer to the metropolis at a time when Venice was their only hope for survival in the face of the Ottoman threat.
AB - Giandomenico Martoretta’s Terzo libro di madrigali a quattro voci (1554) contains several pieces dedicated to Cypriot aristocrats and provides unparalleled even if limited evidence for musical life in mid sixteenth-century Cyprus under Venetian rule. It also sheds light on the wider cultural context including linguistic diversity, familiarity with Italian literary production and musical aptitude. Most importantly, it demonstrates that the island’s elites actively and consciously pursued a lifestyle that brought them closer to the metropolis at a time when Venice was their only hope for survival in the face of the Ottoman threat.
UR - https://brill.com/view/title/38673
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9789004427600
T3 - The Medieval Mediterranean
SP - 219
EP - 255
BT - Cultures of Empire: Rethinking Venetian rule, 1400-1700
A2 - Christ, Georg
A2 - Morche, Franz-Julius
PB - Brill
CY - Leiden
ER -