The article discusses the history of improvisational singers who performed at the Piazza San Martino in Florence, Italy during the 14th and 15th centuries. Topics discussed include the location of the piazza, the history of...
This published version is made available on Dickinson Scholar with the permission of the publisher. For more information on the published version, visit University of California Press's Website. Published as The Journal of...
Wilson, Blake. If Monuments Could Sing: Image, Song, and Civic Devotion Inside Orsanmichele. In Orsanmichele and the History and Preservation of the Civic Monument, edited by Carl Brandon Strehlke, 139-168. National Gallery...
Wilson, Blake. Isaac the Teacher: Pedagogy and Literacy in Florence, ca. 1488. In Music Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, edited by Russell E. Murray, Jr., Susan Forscher Weiss, and Cynthia J. Cyrus, 287-302....
Blake Wilson is a professor of Music at Dickinson College., The biographies of northern musicians active in late-fifteenth century Italy are notoriously sketchy. These individuals rarely stayed put in one place long (Heinrich...
Wilson, Blake. Lauda. Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press, 2001., The principal genre of non-liturgical religious song in Italy during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. In its monophonic form,...
In Florence around 1475, the manner preferred by the city’s literati for performing Tuscan poetry would have been solo, improvisatory song. By 1525, the polyphonic madrigal had become the pre-eminent vehicle. This is a striking...
Ellen Gray is a professor of Music at Dickinson College., This article examines the circulation and reception of a song that catalyzed a youth movement and widespread protest in 2011 Portugal. Through a theorization of...
Wilson, Blake. Rhetoric and Music: Up to 1750: Middle Ages and Renaissance. Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press, 2001., For more information on the published version, visit Oxford Music Online.,...
For more information on the published version, visit the Olschki Website., This is the first comprehensive study on the sources and the practice of the rich and characteristic Florentine tradition of cantasi come. The...
