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Article: Music in Renaissance Lyons.
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 22, 1996
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1996 The Renaissance Society of America. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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In the present volume Frank Dobbins has given us the first comprehensive study of sixteenth-century Lyons as a musical center. A substantial chapter on music in the literature of the city commends the book to literary scholars and musicologists alike.
Located in favorable proximity to Switzerland and Italy, Renaissance Lyons was easily reached by trade-routes and navigable waterways. Civic independence, intellectual tolerance, and private enterprise came to be its hallmarks. German, Florentine and Venetian financiers established Lyons as a major European banking center, and the celebrated trade fairs gave its merchants access to international markets. Through the ...