Per ornamento e servicio: Organi e sistemazioni architettoniche nelle chiese toscane del Rinascimento

Morelli, Arnaldo

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“…118 This placement facilitated the main function of organs at least up to the late sixteenth century, which was to alternate lines of musical chant with singers in choir. 119 Chapels and altars, frequently constructed on the facade, reverse, or upper reaches of Italian tramezzi, created visually prominent sites of religious devotion now entirely lost. Situated in close proximity to the efficacious prayers of the religious community, the area around the choir was a privileged space for lay patrons.…”

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Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Florence

Allen

2022

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Before the late sixteenth century, the churches of Florence were internally divided by monumental screens that separated the laity in the nave from the clergy in the choir precinct. Enabling both separation and mediation, these screens were impressive artistic structures that controlled social interactions, facilitated liturgical performances, and variably framed or obscured religious ritual and imagery. In the 1560s and 70s, screens were routinely destroyed in a period of religious reforms, irreversibly transforming the function, meaning, and spatial dynamics of the church interior. In this volume, Joanne Allen explores the widespread presence of screens and their role in Florentine social and religious life prior to the Counter-Reformation. She presents unpublished documentation and new reconstructions of screens and the choir precincts which they delimited. Elucidating issues such as gender, patronage, and class, her study makes these vanished structures comprehensible and deepens our understanding of the impact of religious reform on church architecture.

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Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Florence

Allen

2022

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Architecture and music in fifteenth-century Italy

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The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music

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“In the Church and in the Chapel”

Zanovello¹

2014

Journal of the American Musicological Society

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Detailed payment records and notes preserved in the Archivio di Stato di Firenze allow us to reconstruct the relationship of music and space in the Florentine church of Santissima Annunziata. In the late fifteenth century different musical styles and repertories came to define ritually the composite space of the church, one of the main houses belonging to the mendicant order of the Servants of Mary. This special role of music came into focus in the early 1470s and even more in the 1480s, when subsequent priors increased the musical activities, possibly to negotiate the new spatial features of the church after a consequential remodeling. Music thus helped organize key areas that had undergone architectural transformations, linking each part of the building to the specific rituals performed there through special sounds directed at the likely participants. The remodeling also involved a shift in the balance of power, with private patrons coming to control the virtual totality of the church. Music helped address this problem as well, by acoustically marking and reclaiming certain spaces as the friars' dedicated ritual sites, but also creating in its variety a nuanced representation of the community—both ordained and lay—that frequented the building.

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Per ornamento e servicio: Organi e sistemazioni architettoniche nelle chiese toscane del Rinascimento

Cited by 3 publications

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Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Florence

Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Florence

Architecture and music in fifteenth-century Italy

“In the Church and in the Chapel”

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