Background
Cummings, Anthony Michael was born on May 3, 1951 in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Joseph F. and Antoinette F. (Ragonese) Cummings.
( During the years between the restoration of the Medici ...)
During the years between the restoration of the Medici to Florence and the election of Cosimo I, the Medici family sponsored a series of splendid public festivals, reconstructed here by Anthony M. Cummings. Cummings has utilized unexpectedly rich sources of information about the musical life of the time in contemporary narrative accounts of these occasions--histories, diaries, and family memoirs. In this interdisciplinary work, he explains how the festivals combined music with art and literature to convey political meanings to Florentine observers. As analyzed by Cummings, the festivals document the political transformation of the city in the crucial era that witnessed the end of the Florentine republic and the beginnings of the Medici principate. This book will interest all students of the life and institutions of sixteenth-century Florence and of the Medici family. In addition, the author furnishes new evidence about the contexts for musical performances in early modern Europe. By describing such contexts, he ascertains much about how music was performed and how it sounded in this period of music history and shows that the modes of musical expression were more varied than is suggested by the relatively few surviving examples of actual pieces of music. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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academic administrator educator music historian
Cummings, Anthony Michael was born on May 3, 1951 in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Joseph F. and Antoinette F. (Ragonese) Cummings.
Bachelor in History and Music cum laude, Williams College, 1973. Master of Fine Arts in Music, Princeton University, 1975. Doctor of Philosophy in Music, Princeton University, 1980.
Lecturer music Princeton (New Jersey) University, 1979-1981, 82-83, 85-88. Fellow National Endowment of the Humanities and Robert Lehman Foundation Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence, Italy, 1989-1990. Dean of admission Princeton (New Jersey) University, 1983-1988.
Research associate Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New York City, 1990-1992. Associate professor music Tulane University, New Orleans, since 1992. Dean Tulane College, since 1992.
Member College Entrance Examination Board, academy advisory committee Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, 1993-1998.
( During the years between the restoration of the Medici ...)
( During the years between the restoration of the Medici ...)
Trustee Williams College, 1986-1991. Member American Musicol. Society, Renaissance Society of America (grantee 1978).