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Warrior, Courtier, Singer

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Warrior, Courtier, Singer book

Giulio Cesare Brancaccio and the Performance of Identity in the Late Renaissance

Warrior, Courtier, Singer

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Warrior, Courtier, Singer book

Giulio Cesare Brancaccio and the Performance of Identity in the Late Renaissance
ByRichard Wistreich
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2007
eBook Published 17 February 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315547657
Pages 346 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315547657
SubjectsArts, Humanities
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Wistreich, R. (2007). Warrior, Courtier, Singer. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315547657

Giulio Cesare Brancaccio was a Neapolitan nobleman with long practical experience of military life, first in the service of Charles V and later as both soldier and courtier in France and then at the court of Alfonso II d'Este at Ferrara. He was also a virtuoso bass singer whose performances were praised by both Tasso and Guarini - he was even for a while the only male member of the famous Ferrarese court Concerto delle dame, who established a legendary reputation during the 1580s. Richard Wistreich examines Brancaccio's life in detail and from this it becomes possible to consider the mental and social world of a warrior and courtier with musical skills in a broader context. A wide-ranging study of bass singing in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italy provides a contextual basis from which to consider Brancaccio's reputation as a performer. Wistreich illustrates the use of music in the process of 'self-fashioning' and the role of performance of all kinds in the construction of male noble identity within court culture, including the nature and currency of honour, chivalric virtù and sixteenth-century notions of gender and virility in relation to musical performance. This fascinating examination of Brancaccio's social world significantly expands our understanding of noble culture in both France and Italy during the sixteenth century, and the place of music-making within it.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

PART ONE Identity of a Performer

chapter 1|40 pages

Napolitano y de buena casta

chapter 2|34 pages

Sieur Jule Brancasse, gentilhomme ordinaire de la Chambre du Roy

chapter 3|44 pages

Il più veterano tra’ soldati

part |2 pages

PART TWO Bass Song

chapter 4|30 pages

Il basso del Brancazio

chapter 5|34 pages

Per basso solo

chapter 6|26 pages

Basso alla bastarda

part |2 pages

PART THREE Performance of Identity

chapter 7|18 pages

Poco preggio di soldato, ma anche di Corteggiano

chapter 8|14 pages

Tra novelle sirene

chapter 9|22 pages

Canti in dolce tenzon

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