The canzone villanesca alla napolitana

Social, Cultural and Historical Contexts

Donna G. Cardamone

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Routledge
28 April 2008

Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600)

Series: Variorum Collected Studies

The printed debut of the canzone villanesca alla napolitana occurred on 24 October 1537, in Naples. Fifteen anonymous 'rustic songs' were published by Johannes de Colonia in a pocket-sized anthology with a cover featuring three women with hoes tilling the soil. The adjective villanesca (from villano or peasant) in the strict sense of the word means rustic or crude, but in this new context it also intimates that Neapolitan poet-musicians had been affected by the instinctive lyrical traditions of everyday people.

The articles in this volume trace the Neapolitan origins of this song form, and its subsequent development as it spread quickly throughout Italy in a succession of editions published in Venice and Rome, providing a diverse repertory of lively songs to amuse the privileged that held and attended academies. Several studies focus on key figures in this process, notably Ferrante Sanseverino, Prince of Salerno, and Orlando di Lasso. At the same time the author relates these developments to the contemporary political context, notably the rivalry of Spain and France for control of the Kingdom of Naples.

By: Donna G. Cardamone
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780754659532
ISBN 10: 0754659534
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
Pages: 346
Publication Date: 28 April 2008
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Donna Cardamone Jackson died in 2009. Before her retirement in 2007 she taught for 38 years at the University of Minnesota,

Reviews for The canzone villanesca alla napolitana: Social, Cultural and Historical Contexts

'Donna Cardamone has been the leading expert on the canzone villanesca alla napolitana, a genre of Neapolitan song of popular character, for more than thirty years.' Music and Letters