Review: Echoing Helicon: Music, Art and Identity in the Este Studioli, 1440–1530, by Tim Shephard

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Book Review| April 01 2016 Review: Echoing Helicon: Music, Art and Identity in the Este Studioli, 1440–1530, by Tim Shephard Echoing Helicon: Music, Art and Identity in the Este Studioli, 1440–1530, by Tim Shephard. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. ix, 170 pp. Evan A. MacCarthy Evan A. MacCarthy EVAN A. MacCARTHY is Assistant Professor of Musicology at West Virginia University. He is currently preparing a new critical edition and first translation of Ugolino's Declaratio musicae disciplinae, as well as a monograph on the study of music by Italian humanists in the fifteenth century. His essays have recently appeared in The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Qui musicam in se habet: Studies in Honor of Alejandro Planchart (A-R Editions, 2015). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the American Musicological Society (2016) 69 (1): 237–241. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2016.69.1.237 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Evan A. MacCarthy; Review: Echoing Helicon: Music, Art and Identity in the Este Studioli, 1440–1530, by Tim Shephard. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 April 2016; 69 (1): 237–241. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2016.69.1.237 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the American Musicological Society Search Examining music and musical patronage through the lens of art history has greatly contributed to a richer and more comprehensive understanding of the cultural forces that influenced musical life during the Italian Renaissance. Generations of scholars, including Emanuel Winternitz, H. Colin Slim, James McKinnon, Maria Rika Maniates, Edward Lowinsky, Richard Leppert, Katherine McIver, and Nicoletta Guidobaldi, have increased our awareness of the way music can inform our discourse about the visual arts and conversely the way the visual arts can inform our discourse about music in the early modern era. Tim Shephard's interests in the intersections of music and the visual arts can be seen throughout his scholarship, including the recently published Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture, edited by Shephard and Anne Leonard (New York: Routledge, 2014). Shephard's book Echoing Helicon: Music, Art and Identity in the Este Studioli, 1440–1530 invites us to open our eyes to... You do not currently have access to this content.