La musica presso la corte di Enrico VIII

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1750
Motet 'Celeste beneficium' by Jean Mouton, Royal 8 G.vii, ff. 2v-3 from a sumptuous choirbook made for King Henry VIII of England, Fonte British Library [1] Autore Medieval scribe and illuminator, Public domain
La figura del sovrano Enrico VIII è significativa non solo per aver delineato la famosa frattura o scisma con il clero nel 1534, ma anche per aver scomposto probabilmente due periodi della musica inglese secondo nuove abitudini: le arti, e particolarmente quella musicale, divennero passibili di essere sostenute. Enrico VIII fu egli stesso un musicista che amava la

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Music writer, independent researcher and founder of the magazine 'Percorsi Musicali'. He wrote hundreads of essays and reviews of cds and books (over 2000 articles) and his work is widely appreciated in Italy and abroad via quotations, texts' translations, biographies, liner notes for prestigious composers, musicians and labels. He provides a modern conception of musical listening, which meditates on history, on the aesthetic seductions of sounds, on interdisciplinary relationships with other arts and cognitive sciences. He is also a graduate in Economics.