MUS 15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cultural Capital, Pamphili Family, Ripieno
Unit 1: Patronage, Power, and the Performance of Prestige: Arcangelo Corelli and the
Orchestra in Rome
- Setting the stage
o Late 17th / early 18th century
o Rome
- Patronage
o Aristocratic support for arts
o Status symbol
o One way to maintain wealth is to display it (consolidate and continue power);
display of power
- The world (NOT) as we know it
o Control by Catholic church
- Late 17th century Rome
o Pope is ruler
▪ But Papacy was elected (by cardinal); intense competition
o Many powerful people
▪ Cardinals
▪ Important Italian families
▪ Foreign dignitaries
o Many venues/occasions for instrumental music
▪ secular so Pope don’t control; no lyric
- Louis XIV (14): Paris
o Not elected (king)
o Those powerful people don’t have a lot of power
o Not much competition for power
o Not many venues/occasions for any music
▪ King ran everything
▪ All instrumentalists are employed by the king
- The ‘modern’ orchestra
o Before = split into choirs
▪ One player per part
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