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Echoes of Women's Voices: Music, Art, and Female Patronage in Early Modern Florence.

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Publication Date: 01-DEC-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Echoes of Women's Voices: Music, Art, and Female Patronage in Early Modern Florence.(Book review)

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Echoes of Women's Voices: Music, Art, and Female Patronage in Early Modern Florence. By Kelley Harness. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. [xvi, 378 p. ISBN 0-226-31659-9. $45.] Music examples, illustrations, plates, index, bibliography.

Echoes of Women's Voices is an important contribution to musicological literature. Not only is it a sorely-needed comprehensive study of the musical and artistic works pertaining to the early seventeenth-century regents of Florence, Christine of Lorraine and Maria Maddalena of Austria, it is also a savvy critical study that demands of its readers a rigorous confrontation with some of the great, overarching questions of our time: the interaction of critical theory with archival source studies; the translation of an inherently masculine conception of patronage into the realm of women; and the profound interpenetration of thematic materials across sacred and secular lines.

Harness's conception of women's patronage and self-fashioning as conversational reconfigures the usual muscular, monumental vision of patronage...

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