دانلود کتاب Singing in the garden: An examination of music in Trecento painting and Boccaccio’s “Decameron” [thesis]

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 (1330-45) in the Campo Santo in Pisa,and Andrea di
Bonaiuto's Allegory of the Dominican Order (1366-68) 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 a sense of civic pride in the newly-forming Tuscan city-states .