Plague and Music in the Renaissance
Remi (Loyola University Maryland) Chiu
Cambridge University Press, 2017
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Using a wide variety of primary sources, this book explores Renaissance musical responses to pestilence. It will fascinate musicologists and historians interested in the role of music in the fight against plague by revealing how medical knowledge, spiritual beliefs and public rituals surrounding the disease informed musical composition.
- ISBN-13
- 9781107109254
- ISBN-10
- 1107109256
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2017
- Publication date
- 2017-06-15
- Pages
- 296
- Dimensions
- 175x252x22
- Weight
- 736