Book Review
Dec. 25th, 2020 01:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariUncovering Music of Early European Women (1250-1750)
edited by Claire Fontijn
This book covers the ways women were involved in music making from the medieval through baroque eras. and every chapter is fascinating. I really liked Laurence Wuidar's exploration of music in medieval mysticc Hadewijch's visions, which illuminates the role and importance of music in religious experience. The highlight of the book for me was the three chapters dealing with Isabella D'Este and Lucrezia Borgia as patrons and musicians in Renaissance Italy. Not only was the scholarship and information presented really interesting, but Jeppesen, MacNeil, and Upton evoked the lives and worlds of their subjects so vividly and palpably that I felt as if I could directly touch the past.
(Full disclosure: I work with editor and one of the chapter authors.)
edited by Claire Fontijn
This book covers the ways women were involved in music making from the medieval through baroque eras. and every chapter is fascinating. I really liked Laurence Wuidar's exploration of music in medieval mysticc Hadewijch's visions, which illuminates the role and importance of music in religious experience. The highlight of the book for me was the three chapters dealing with Isabella D'Este and Lucrezia Borgia as patrons and musicians in Renaissance Italy. Not only was the scholarship and information presented really interesting, but Jeppesen, MacNeil, and Upton evoked the lives and worlds of their subjects so vividly and palpably that I felt as if I could directly touch the past.
(Full disclosure: I work with editor and one of the chapter authors.)
