Trecento: Tuscany & France | Casa Italiana Zerilli / Marimò

Trecento: Tuscany & France

Music Listening Series
Mon, 03/08/2021 - 6:30pm
What Makes It Italian? Studies in Contrast
Ambrogio Lorenzetti Allegory of Good Government 1338/Jean Pucelle Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux c. 1320-1350

Sensual madrigals and large-scale paintings expressive of Tuscan civic pride play against crystalline French polyphony and illuminated manuscripts.
Italian pairing: Sienese frescoes by Ambrogio Lorenzetti and a secular madrigal by Florentine Francesco Landini reflect civic pride.
French pairing: A Book of Hours illuminated by Jean Pucelle and music of Guillaume de Machaut reveal religious devotion.

What Makes It Italian? Studies in Contrast is a music listening and discussion group that meets online on the Zoom platform and is open to everyone.

Participation is free.

The group is led by Gina Crusco, who guides listening at Bard LLI and Riverdale Y, and who has been music instructor at The New School and director of Underworld Productions.

Please email [email protected] to confirm your attendance and receive an invitation link.

What seems indescribable in music often becomes easy to name in the visual arts. So this series for the first time offers much to see as well as to hear. Each week an Italian pairing of music and art is held up against a similar pairing from elsewhere. Noting how the Italianate aesthetic contrasts with England, Spain, France, the Low Countries, Austria and the US will help us define more clearly “What Makes it Italian.”