Singing To The Lyre In Renaissance Italy: Memory, Performance, And Oral Poetry - 9781108488075

Vernacular poetry in Renaissance Italy was typically created and disseminated by improvising singer-poets. This is the first comprehensive study of cantare ad lyram (singing to the lyre), the dominant form of solo singing in Italy prior to the mid-sixteenth century, and of the related oral practices of memory and improvisation.

• | By (Author): Blake (Dickinson College, Pennsylvania) Wilson
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 21, 2019
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 484 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 1108488072
• | ISBN-13: 9781108488075