Iain Fenlon on "Public Music and Ritual in Renaissance Venice"

Iain Fenlon, Professor of Historical Musicology at the University of Cambridge, will present a talk entitled "Life and Death: Public Music and Ritual in Renaissance Venice."

Professor Fenlon is a specialist in Historical Musicology in the Faculty of Music, and a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge University. Most of his writings, some of which are gathered together in Music and Culture in Late Renaissance Italy (Oxford, 2000), explore how the history of music is related to the history of society. His most recent books are The Ceremonial City: History, Memory and Myth in Renaissance Venice (Yale, 2007) and Piazza San Marco (Harvard, 2009).