Download or read book Music in the Collective Experience in Sixteenth-century Milan written by Christine Suzanne Getz and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using archival documents, music prints, manuscripts and contemporary writing, Getz examines the musical culture of sixteenth-century Milan. The book investigates the musician's role as an actor and a functionary in the political, religious, and social spectacles produced by the Milanese church, state and aristocracy within the city's diverse urban spaces. Furthermore, it establishes a context for the numerous motets, madrigals, and lute intabulations composed and printed in sixteenth-century Milan by examining their function within the urban milieu in which they were first performed.