caa a22 4500 386314047 CHVBK 20180307111559.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198810 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0261127900000905 doi S0261127900000905 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0261127900000905 Ongaro Giulio University of Delaware Sixteenth-century patronage at St Mark's, Venice [Elektronische Daten] [Giulio Ongaro] The chapel of St Mark's in Venice occupied a prominent place in the musical life of most of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, so that a Venetian writer could justly remark: ‘The chapel of these Lords is thought to be among the best in the world, and [singers] have come to serve from France and Spain.' Yet, in spite of its importance in the history of Western music, our knowledge of its development and organisation is far from complete and contains large gaps. It will suffice to point out that we know a lot more about the Gabrielis - organists - than we do about Zarlino in his capacity as maestro and composer, that the first modern study of the chapel, barely eight years old, is the recent Vespers at St Mark's by James Moore, and that the venerable Storia della musica sacra nella già cappella ducale di S. Marco in Venezia by Francesco Caffi, the only comprehensive study of the subject, has, in default of more modern work, been reprinted several times in recent years. The situation is gradually improving, with several new studies on music in Venice and at St Mark's already available or in preparation, but one of the issues not yet treated adequately is the question of patronage at St Mark's and of the social and economic status of its singers. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988 Early Music History Cambridge University Press 8(1988-10), 81-115 0261-1279 8<81 1988 8 EMH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261127900000905 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261127900000905 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Ongaro Giulio University of Delaware NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Early Music History Cambridge University Press 8(1988-10), 81-115 0261-1279 8<81 1988 8 EMH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge