Tim Shephard
Biographic Data
| ID | 5656461 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tim Shephard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tim |
| FAMILY NAME | Shephard |
| SIGNATURE | SHEPHARD T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4053-8916 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Giovanni Pontano hears the street soundscape of Naples
Giovanni Pontano’s dialogue Antonius can be read almost as a thick description of the soundscape of a Neapolitan street in the mid‐ to late‐15th century, complete with public announcements, street performers, domestic arguments, workers’ banter, charms and spells, processions, errand boys, bells, clocks, cockerels, and much more. Antonius was first printed in 1491, and then in a 1501 Opera edition alongside another dialogue, Charon , Pontano’s tr…
Reading for musical knowledge in early sixteenth‐century Italy
The essays included here present case studies prepared within the project ‘Sounding the Bookshelf 1501: Music in a Year of Italian Printed Books’, funded by the Leverhulme Trust and hosted at the University of Sheffield. The project asks a simple question: standing in a Venetian bookshop towards the end of the year 1501, what information about music might you encounter as you browse the new printed titles available for purchase? Very few of the b…
Commenting on music in Juvenal's sixth satire
The satires of Juvenal were immensely popular in Renaissance Italy, printed in various forms over 70 times in the period 1469‐1520, and five times in 1501 alone. The satires contain a wealth of references to instruments, instrumentalists, and playing practices that are frequently used in double entendres connoting lewd acts and infidelity, most potently in the sixth satire. The five Renaissance commentaries printed alongside the satires in 1501 e…
Looking up music in two ‘encyclopedias’ printed in 1501
A modern user of a printed encyclopedia expects to find concise entries on a wide range of subjects organised alphabetically for ease of reference. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries a number of scholarly texts of a particularly long and wide‐ranging character were essentially ‘encyclopedized’ through the provision of compendious subject indexes, appearing before the start of the text in some printed editions, to facilitate reference use. T…
Musical Classicisms in Italy before the Madrigal
Modern evaluations of the relation between music and the fashion for the antique in Italy in the period before the madrigal have tended to proceed from the perspective of intellectual history. This article aims to offer an alternative—although certainly related—perspective, by exploring the circulation of musical classicisms in Italian visual and material culture, roughly from 1450 to 1520. This period saw the rise to prominence in Italy of both …
Giovanni Gabrieli
Giovanni Gabrieli: Transmission and Reception of a Venetian Musical Tradition. Rodolfo Baroncini, David Bryant, and Luigi Collarile, eds. Venetian Music Studies 1. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016. viii + 262 pp. €100. - Volume 71 Issue 2
Music, Silence, and the Senses in a Late Fifteenth-Century Book of Hours
Although it is common in the musicological literature to compare decorated music books with books of hours, studies addressing the musical features of books of hours are rare. This article considers musical features in the decoration of a book of hours made by leading illuminators in Ferrara ca. 1469. Images appearing in books of hours are considered to have had an exemplary and meditative function in relation to devotional practice; therefore, t…
Eroticism in Early Modern Music
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The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture
The word ukiyo-e comes from a combination of “Ukiyo” , which means “floating world,” and “e” , which means picture or image. So, ukiyo-e offer both a description of the world of Edo (present-day Tokyo)—in particular the pleasures, foods, daily life, and culture on offer there—and the heavy bustle of the city, at that stage the largest and most densely populated in the world (with over a million inhabitants by the eighteenth century). These prints…
Music and Patronage
Paul A. Merkley, ed. Music and Patronage. The Library of Essays on Music, Politics and Society. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2012. xxvii + 598 pp. $325. ISBN: 978–1–4094–3106–0. - Volume 66 Issue 3
Constructing Isabella d'Este's musical decorum in the visual sphere
Over the course of her life as Marchesa of Mantua, Isabella d'Este won fame as a leader in fashion and taste, and as an enthusiastic employer of artists, musicians, poets and scholars. Her motivations in this respect were, inevitably, neither entirely personal nor entirely philanthropic, but served the purpose of presenting to the world an appropriate image of the noblewoman at leisure. In this study I will discuss aspects of her image‐making in …
Music and Wonder at the Medici Court
During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, despotic regimes across Europe appropriated the festive life of the local court, city, and church for the demonstration of their power and legitimacy. State weddings, births, and christenings, diplomatic events, religious festivals, jousts, banquets, and civic commemorations were the occasions for spectacular multimedia performances, carefully stage-managed, often prepared months in advance. Without s…
Constructing Identities in a Music Manuscript
The motet manuscript known as the Medici Codex is associated by modern scholarship with the 1518 marriage of Lorenzo II de' Medici and Madeleine de la Tour d'Auvergne. It was once thought that the manuscript was made in France and given to Lorenzo by Francis I, but now it is almost unanimously agreed that it was made in Rome under the patronage of Pope Leo X. Since this revision, no one has put forward a detailed view of how the manuscript relate…
Music, Silence, and the Senses in a Late Fifteenth-Century Book of Hours
Although it is common in the musicological literature to compare decorated music books with books of hours, studies addressing the musical features of books of hours are rare. This article considers musical features in the decoration of a book of hours made by leading illuminators in Ferrara ca. 1469. Images appearing in books of hours are considered to have had an exemplary and meditative function in relation to devotional practice; therefore, t…
Constructing Identities in a Music Manuscript
The motet manuscript known as the Medici Codex is associated by modern scholarship with the 1518 marriage of Lorenzo II de' Medici and Madeleine de la Tour d'Auvergne. It was once thought that the manuscript was made in France and given to Lorenzo by Francis I, but now it is almost unanimously agreed that it was made in Rome under the patronage of Pope Leo X. Since this revision, no one has put forward a detailed view of how the manuscript relate…
Constructing Isabella d'Este's musical decorum in the visual sphere
Over the course of her life as Marchesa of Mantua, Isabella d'Este won fame as a leader in fashion and taste, and as an enthusiastic employer of artists, musicians, poets and scholars. Her motivations in this respect were, inevitably, neither entirely personal nor entirely philanthropic, but served the purpose of presenting to the world an appropriate image of the noblewoman at leisure. In this study I will discuss aspects of her image‐making in …
Music and Wonder at the Medici Court
During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, despotic regimes across Europe appropriated the festive life of the local court, city, and church for the demonstration of their power and legitimacy. State weddings, births, and christenings, diplomatic events, religious festivals, jousts, banquets, and civic commemorations were the occasions for spectacular multimedia performances, carefully stage-managed, often prepared months in advance. Without s…
The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture
The word ukiyo-e comes from a combination of “Ukiyo” , which means “floating world,” and “e” , which means picture or image. So, ukiyo-e offer both a description of the world of Edo (present-day Tokyo)—in particular the pleasures, foods, daily life, and culture on offer there—and the heavy bustle of the city, at that stage the largest and most densely populated in the world (with over a million inhabitants by the eighteenth century). These prints…
Music and Patronage
Paul A. Merkley, ed. Music and Patronage. The Library of Essays on Music, Politics and Society. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2012. xxvii + 598 pp. $325. ISBN: 978–1–4094–3106–0. - Volume 66 Issue 3
Eroticism in Early Modern Music
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Music, Silence, and the Senses in a Late Fifteenth-Century Book of Hours
Although it is common in the musicological literature to compare decorated music books with books of hours, studies addressing the musical features of books of hours are rare. This article considers musical features in the decoration of a book of hours made by leading illuminators in Ferrara ca. 1469. Images appearing in books of hours are considered to have had an exemplary and meditative function in relation to devotional practice; therefore, t…
Giovanni Gabrieli
Giovanni Gabrieli: Transmission and Reception of a Venetian Musical Tradition. Rodolfo Baroncini, David Bryant, and Luigi Collarile, eds. Venetian Music Studies 1. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016. viii + 262 pp. €100. - Volume 71 Issue 2
Musical Classicisms in Italy before the Madrigal
Modern evaluations of the relation between music and the fashion for the antique in Italy in the period before the madrigal have tended to proceed from the perspective of intellectual history. This article aims to offer an alternative—although certainly related—perspective, by exploring the circulation of musical classicisms in Italian visual and material culture, roughly from 1450 to 1520. This period saw the rise to prominence in Italy of both …
Looking up music in two ‘encyclopedias’ printed in 1501
A modern user of a printed encyclopedia expects to find concise entries on a wide range of subjects organised alphabetically for ease of reference. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries a number of scholarly texts of a particularly long and wide‐ranging character were essentially ‘encyclopedized’ through the provision of compendious subject indexes, appearing before the start of the text in some printed editions, to facilitate reference use. T…
Giovanni Pontano hears the street soundscape of Naples
Giovanni Pontano’s dialogue Antonius can be read almost as a thick description of the soundscape of a Neapolitan street in the mid‐ to late‐15th century, complete with public announcements, street performers, domestic arguments, workers’ banter, charms and spells, processions, errand boys, bells, clocks, cockerels, and much more. Antonius was first printed in 1491, and then in a 1501 Opera edition alongside another dialogue, Charon , Pontano’s tr…
Reading for musical knowledge in early sixteenth‐century Italy
The essays included here present case studies prepared within the project ‘Sounding the Bookshelf 1501: Music in a Year of Italian Printed Books’, funded by the Leverhulme Trust and hosted at the University of Sheffield. The project asks a simple question: standing in a Venetian bookshop towards the end of the year 1501, what information about music might you encounter as you browse the new printed titles available for purchase? Very few of the b…
Commenting on music in Juvenal's sixth satire
The satires of Juvenal were immensely popular in Renaissance Italy, printed in various forms over 70 times in the period 1469‐1520, and five times in 1501 alone. The satires contain a wealth of references to instruments, instrumentalists, and playing practices that are frequently used in double entendres connoting lewd acts and infidelity, most potently in the sixth satire. The five Renaissance commentaries printed alongside the satires in 1501 e…
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