Singing in the garden: An examination of music in Trecento painting and Boccaccio’s “Decameron” [thesis] PDF
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Ann Arbor, MI 48106 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Singing in the Garden: An Examination of Music in Trecento Painting and Boccaccio's Decameron Nora Maria Beck Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 1993 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. C 1993 Nora Maria Beck All Rights Reserved Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. ABSTRACT Singing in the Garden: An Examination of Trecento Painting and Boccaccio's Decameron Nora Maria Beck The purpose of this thesis is to illuminate the role of secular music in Trecento Tuscan society by examining visual, literary, and musical sources of the period. The representations of secular music-making to be explored appear in three frescoes, Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Effects of Good Government in the City (1337-40) in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, Bonamico Buffalmacco's Triumph of Death (133 0-45) in the Campo Santo in Pisa, and Andrea di Bonaiuto's Allegory of the Dominican Order (13 66-68) in the Spanish Chapel in the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence. The socio-political meaning of music in these frescoes will be uncovered and compared to Boccaccio's references to music in his Decameron. Aristotelian political philosophy, Dominican scholasticism, metaphorical and realistic portrayals of women, and narrative structures based on the model of the exemplum will be seer, to be common aspects of the paintings and Decameron and it will be argued that these factors contributed to the formulation of the Trecento musical aesthetic. The music of Gherardello da Firenze, Lorenzo Masini, and Francesco Landini will be analyzed in relation to the aesthetic and cultural factors outlined above and it will be shown that music, together with art and literature, promoted Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. a sense of civic pride in the newly-forming Tuscan city- states . Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST OF PLATES Chapter Page INTRODUCTION......................................... 1 1. EFFECTS OF GOOD GOVERNMENT IN THE CITY........... 23 2. TRIUMPH OF DEATH................................... 46 3. ALLEGORY OF THE DOMINICAN ORDER...................66 4. MUSIC IN BOCCACCIO'S DECAMERON....................95 5. BOCCACCIO'S MUSICAL AESTHETIC....................127 6. WOMEN AND TRECENTO MUSIC......................... 165 7. MUSIC AND THE TRECENTO AESTHETIC................ 211 BIBLIOGRAPHY............................................. 266 APPENDIX......................................... 286 References to music in Boccaccio's Decameron PLATES....................................................296 L. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. LIST OF PLATES Plate 1. Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Effects of Good Government In the City, Siena, Palazzo Pubblico 2. Lorenzetti, Good Government, Detail, ten female dancers 3. Lorenzetti, Good Government, Detail, ten female dancers, each numbered 4. Lorenzetti, Bad Government, Siena, Palazzo Pubblico 5. Giotto, Justice and Injustice, Padua, Arena Chapel 6. Bonamico Buffalmacco, Triumph of Death, Pisa, Campo Santo 7. Buffalmacco, Triumph, Detail, Legend of the Three Living and Three Dead 8. Buffalmacco, Triumph, Detail, Demons and Angels Flying Above the Garden 9. Buffalmacco, Triumph, Detail, The Garden 10. Buffalmacco, Triumph, Detail, Woman Holding a White Dog 11. Buffalmacco, Triumph, Detail, Woman Playing the Mezzo cannone 12. Hans Holbein, The Ambassadors, London, National Gallery 13 Andrea di Bonaiuto, Allegory of the Domincan Order, Florence, Santa Maria Novella, Spanish Chapel 14. Bonaiuto, Saint Thomas Aquinas Enthroned, Florence, Santa Maria Novella, Spanish Chapel 15. Bonaiuto, Allegory, Detail, Garden and Dancers 16. Bonaiuto, Allegory, Detail, Dancers 17. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut.29.I, Boethius: Musica mundana, humana, instrumental is 18. Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, VA14, Lady Music 19. Bonaiuto, Saint Thomas Enthroned, Detail, Ars musicae u Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
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