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Epilogue - The Sixteenth Century

from Part II - Cantare ad Lyram: The Humanist Tradition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 October 2019

Blake Wilson
Affiliation:
Dickinson College, Pennsylvania
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Though the practice of solo singing and improvising continued well past the 1530s, sea changes in the politics and poetics of the peninsula after the Sack of Rome make this a reasonable point at which to conclude the book. This section will briefly explain those changes and how they altered the status and nature of poetic performance. I will also pose questions and suggestions about the course of the practice in the sixteenth century in relation to the rise of the madrigal and opera, extraordinary developments that I believe cannot be fully understood without a more comprehensive view of vernacular poetic performance in Renaissance Italy. The epilogue is structured around the consideration of a number of dualities: elite and popular, oral and written, lyric and epic, poet and composer, nature and artifice.

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Singing to the Lyre in Renaissance Italy
Memory, Performance, and Oral Poetry
, pp. 406 - 422
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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  • The Sixteenth Century
  • Blake Wilson, Dickinson College, Pennsylvania
  • Book: Singing to the Lyre in Renaissance Italy
  • Online publication: 31 October 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108768887.011
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  • The Sixteenth Century
  • Blake Wilson, Dickinson College, Pennsylvania
  • Book: Singing to the Lyre in Renaissance Italy
  • Online publication: 31 October 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108768887.011
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  • The Sixteenth Century
  • Blake Wilson, Dickinson College, Pennsylvania
  • Book: Singing to the Lyre in Renaissance Italy
  • Online publication: 31 October 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108768887.011
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