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This programme looks at Italian and English intermezzi and masques.
This programme looks at Italian and English intermezzi and masques.
| Module code and title: | A201, Renaissance and Reformation |
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| Item code: | A201; 06 |
| First transmission date: | 29-03-1972 |
| Published: | 1972 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:00 |
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| Producer: | Nuala O'Faolain |
| Contributors: | Christopher Beeching; Sue Bishop; Anthony Jackson; Catherine King; Gabriel Woolf |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Dance; Intermezzi; Masques |
| Footage description: | Catherine King introduces the programme. The marriage procession of Christine of Lorraine, bride of Ferdinand di Medici in 1589 is described and the route followed on film. Designs of the arches by Buontalenti and Cigoli are shown. Ballad in honour of Christine of Lorraine by Pietro da Cardi is spoken over. Catherine King introduces the intermezzi, or interludes, which are considered as being characteristic of Renaissance entertainment. Excerpts are shown of intermezzi designs by Buontalenti, music by Luca Marenzio - the excerpts are animated after contemporary descriptions. (The first intermezzo is shown complete). Catherine King describes the costume sketches for the intermezzi. She also describes the general nature of the following intermezzi. Catherine King in the banqueting hall at Whitehall. A pavane is danced Catherine King describes the iconography of dance: (reference is also made to the icongraphical key of the banquet hall at Whitehall - shots of ceiling) Catherine King amplifies her comments on the iconography of dance with a consideration of the musical cosmos from 'Practica musice', by Gafurio 1496. Details from latter shown. Catherine King outlines the neoplatonic theories of music in vogue during the Renaissance. Figures from 'Ballets gaometriques 1610 (French court) shown with music 'Ayre' by John Adson, c.1600. Catherine King further amplifies the symbolic content of music and dance, and of the English masques, the equivalent of the Italian intermezzi. Further interpretive consideration is given to the banqueting hall in Whitehall. Designs for the masque 'Oberon', lyric by Ben Jonson, Inigo Jones, designer; music by Ferrobosco. Catherine King describes the stage setting. The animated sequences of the masque give way to a galliard danced in the banqueting hall. Catherine King expands upon the active talismanic values of music and dance in the Renaissance. Catherine King introduces the 6th Intermezzo of 1589 designs by Buontalenti and a contemporary description is used for the animation. |
| Master spool number: | 6LT/70605 |
| Production number: | 00521_2311 |
| Videofinder number: | 2496 |
| Available to public: | no |
