While composers of sacred music in 16th-century Venice were devising increasingly complex choral polyphony, Venetian architects began to develop new configurations of sacred space. This fascinating book explores the direct relationship between architectural design and sacred music in Renaissance Venice. Deborah Howard and Laura Moretti combine historical research into the architectural and liturgical traditions of a dozen Venetian churches with the results of a parallel series of scientific surveys and live choral experiments of the acoustic properties of the chosen buildings.
- ISBN10 0300148747
- ISBN13 9780300148749
- Publish Date 16 February 2010
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 October 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English