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Date of Award
Spring 2010
Document Type
Restricted Thesis: Campus only access
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Music: General
First Advisor
Dr. Jennifer Cable
Second Advisor
Dr. Lidia Radi
Abstract
The Italian frottola, popular within Northern Italian communities at the end of the 1400s and the beginning of the 1500s, became a critical tool for the transformation and the advancement of Italian sung music, taking the first steps towards the revolutionary madrigal form of the mid-1500s and creating a fashionable court style in Italy that was no longer heavily focused on religious content. This genre grew particularly under the auspices of Isabella d‟Este in the Gonzaga court and it is the printed texts copying those of her court which allow the frottola to be studied in modern day. I intend to demonstrate that it was the court musicians of Gonzaga, particularly Bartolomeo Tromboncino, who brought the frottola to a new level of musicianship, leading the way for the future madrigalists of the late 1500s and reflecting a larger change in Italian society.
Recommended Citation
Ross, Mierka R., "The dynamic frottola : changing music in the 1500s" (2010). Honors Theses. 152.
https://scholarship.richmond.edu/honors-theses/152