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Article: Bonfire Songs: Savonarola's Musical Legacy.(Review)

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The Renaissance Society of America is pleased to announce that Patrick Macey's Bonfire Songs: Savonarola's Musical Legacy was awarded the Phyllis Goodhart Gordon Book Prize for 1999-2000. Robert R. Holzer's review follows.

Patrick Macey, Bonfire Songs: Savonarola's Musical Legacy (Oxford Monographs on Music.) Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. xx + 359 pp. $60. ISBN: 0-19-816669-9.

Bonfire Songs won the Gordan Book Prize, which the Renaissance Society of America awards annually to the best book in Renaissance studies. The prize was richly deserved, for Patrick Macey has charted with grace and skill the musical responses to one of the great figures of ...

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