The history of music in Portugal

Abstract

and detailed consideration of one of the most characteristic musical and dramatic forms sponsored locally by the Jesuit order, the Latin drama with musical interpolations, and also provides an impressive amount of previously unpublished documentation of musical life at the college. Handsomely produced and reasonably priced for such an elaborate and lengthy volume, Musica e societh nella storia trentina certainly contains enough new material to make it essential for any library seriously concerned with social and institutional life in Italy (the total chronological range stretches from prehistory to the present day), despite the entirely traditional structure and approach of its contents. It concludes with a list of manuscript sources referred to in the text (the majority, as might be expected, remain in Trent itself), an index of names and another of places, and a general bibliography; the latter has been poorly proofread, and mistakes abound, particularly in the English titles.