IMC 2003: Sessions
Session 121: Music and Vernacular Literature at the Visconti Court
Monday 14 July 2003, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Oliver Huck, Philosophische Fakultät, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Reinhard Strohm, Faculty of Music, University of Oxford |
| Paper 121-a | Music for Luchino, Bernabò and Gian Galeazzo Visconti (Language: English) Index terms: Music |
| Paper 121-b | Form and Function of Vernacular Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French/ Occitan, Language and Literature - Italian |
| Paper 121-c | Devices and their Intertextuality (Language: English) Index terms: Music |
| Abstract | Under the Visconti music and vernacular literature served as media for the representation of power and authority of the signore. The conditions of the Visconti court, its requirement for legitimation and the need of the Visconti to maintain their position lead to specific forms and genres of literature and music in which a strong French influence is visible. Under Luchino and Galeazzo II music was reserved for ceremonies and linked with courtly pleasures. The personal devices of Bernabò and Gian Galeazzo then permitted to allude to their owners, not only as far as their personal conception of their political role is concerned, but also by critisising them abroad, for example in Florence during its conflict with the Visconti. |