Music, Silence, and the Senses in a Late Fifteenth-Century Book of Hours
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Published:2017
Issue:2
Volume:70
Page:474-512
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ISSN:0034-4338
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Container-title:Renaissance Quarterly
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Renaiss. Q.
Author:
Shephard Tim,Ștefănescu Laura,Sessini Serenella
Abstract
AbstractAlthough it is common in the musicological literature to compare decorated music books with books of hours, studies addressing the musical features of books of hours are rare. This article considers musical features in the decoration of a book of hours made by leading illuminators in Ferrara ca. 1469. Images appearing in books of hours are considered to have had an exemplary and meditative function in relation to devotional practice; therefore, this study asks what the reader was intended to learn from musical images, drawing conclusions about the alignment of the senses and the significance of music in fifteenth-century religious experience.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Visual Arts and Performing Arts,History
Cited by
2 articles.
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