Part I. An Audible Empire. Echoes of Empire : The Laudes in Medieval Venetian Crete ; Unsilenced Archives : Icons, Advocates, and the Akathistos Hymn -- Part II. The Fictive City. Singing Effigies : An Annunciation Drama for the Festa delle Marie -- Part III. Relics and the Horizons of Musical Representation. Narrative Fragments : Vespers for the Apparition of Saint Mark's Relics ; History Lessons : Matins for the Apparition of Saint Mark's Relics ; Sound Documents : The Midcentury Chancery Motet -- Epilogue
Summary
This path-breaking account of music's role in Venice's Mediterranean empire sheds new light on the city's earliest musical history
