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Howard Mayer Brown, Sixteenth-Century Instrumentation: The Music for the Florentine Intermedii.

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MSD 30 Howard Mayer Brown, Sixteenth-Century Instrumentation: The Music for the Florentine Intermedii.
1st. ed.
1973
229 pp.
Bound copy temporarily out of stock.
Unbound 8.5x11(A4) offprint available.
MSD 30–POD
$47.00
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Contents
List of Illustrations 10
Introduction 11
Chapter I: The Intermedii 15
Chapter II: Keyboard Instruments 21
Chapter III: Plucked Stringed Instruments 27
Chapter Iv: Bowed Stringed Instruments 39
Chapter V: Wind and Percussion Instruments and Voices 57
Chapter Vi: Principles of Sixteenth-Century Instrumentation 77
Appendix: An Attempted Reconstruction of the Instrumentation In Some Florentine Intermedii of the Sixteenth Century 85
I. 1518. Performance in the Palazzo Medici For Lorenzo de'Medici and His New Wife, Madeleine de la Tour d'Auvergne 87
II. 1539. Wedding of Cosimo I and Eleanore of Toledo 88
III. 1548. Entry of Henry II and Catherine de'Medici into Lyons 94
IV. 1565. Wedding of Francesco de'Medici to Joanna of Austria 97
V. 1568. Baptism of Leonora de'Medici, First Born of Francesco and Joanna of Austria 101
VI. 1586. Wedding of Don Cesare D'Este and Virginia de'Medici 105
VII. 1589. Wedding of Ferdinand I and Christine of Lorraine 107
VIII. 1589. Wedding of Ferdinand I and Christine of Lorraine 132
Musical Examples 139
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