Echoing Helicon

Tim Shephard is a Lecturer in Musicology at the University of Sheffield, and also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Music, Gender and Identity, University of Huddersfield. His research concerns music, identity, and visual culture at the courts of Renaissance Italy, and has appeared in journals including Renaissance Quarterly and Renaissance Studies. He is co-editor of the Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture.

• Contents ; Introduction ; Chapter I - Music and Identity in the Studiolo ; The Studiolo "Type" ; Identity and Self-Fashioning ; Music in the Studiolo ; The Protagonists ; Chapter II - Leonello and the Erotics of Song ; The Belfiore Studiolo: Muses and Music ; Euterpe's Seductive Harmonies ; Eros as Ovidian Muse ; Leonello's Musical Poetics ; Pietrobono, Companion of Princes ; Chapter III - Isabella and the Decorum of Voice ; Making Isabella's Studiolo: A Summary ; Voice and Decorum ; Voice and Legitimacy ; Minervan Equivocations ; Voice and Agency ; Chapter IV - Alfonso and the Eloquence of Bacchus ; Making Alfonso's Studiolo: A Summary ; Music and Landscape ; Trouble on Parnassus: Bacchus' Masculine Eloquence ; Viewing, Performance and Identity ; Alfonso's Agency ; Chapter V - Conclusions: Living Music at Court ; Summary ; Decorated Space and Musical Meaning ; Objects in Performance ; Voice and Agency ; Imaging the Prince ; Figures ; Bibliography

Shephard has opened up methodologies which should enable him, or other scholars, to do the same in the future for families such as the Medici in Florence or the Montefeltro in Urbino. His study deserves a wide readership among historians of music and the visual arts, and particularly among those who work across both disciplines.