In Praise of the Politically Incorrect: the Bergamasca 

Authors

  • Esti Sheinberg University of Nebraska-Lincoln Author

Keywords:

Bregamasca, facchini bergamaschi, Venice, 16th century, musical topic, cultural perception

Abstract

The article inspects examples of Beramasca compositions from the 16th and 17th centuries, looking at stylistic processes of change.  These examples are connected with the cultural perceptions of and prejudices about the Bergamo servants (facchini bergamaschi) in 16th century Venice, their professions, dialects and habits. From these findings a musical topic of simplicity is uncovered and analyzed. 

Author Biography

  • Esti Sheinberg, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

    Esti Sheinberg is Associate Professor of Practice in Music History at the Glenn Korff School of Music, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA (BA in musicology at the University of Tel-Aviv, Israel; PhD in music at the University of Edinburgh, UK). She has authored Irony, Parody and the Grotesque in the Music of Shostakovich (Ashgate, 2000), as well as edited Music Semiotics: A Network of Significations – in Honour and Memory of Raymond Monelle (Ashgate, 2012) and Anatoly P. Milka, Rethinking J.S. Bach’s The Art of fugue (Routledge, 2016. 

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Published

2024-04-23

Issue

Vol. 13 (2016)

Section

Articles