Canto Libri

Canto Libri Canto (Latin) means "to sing" and libri means "book" - canto libri translates as "songbook" or "hymnal." A hymn is a song religious, written with praise, adoration or prayer in heart and mind. Collection of hymns is known as hymnals. Each life is a songbook; my life, too. This is my songbook; One Chapter of my journey so far. I am sure there are many more Chapters to come; many more Chapters to share and share I will With total openness. Each song a sacred hymn; each breath a precious pearl; some one somewhere has been kind on my world. My life is a songbook sung in full by somefew... but mostly in part by manyMy songbook will remainfor alwaysCanto Libri is one songone chapter of my lifeCome share My Canto Libri, My Hymnal I dedicate the thoughts within this book to the children who receive kind treatment at the Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity (London, UK) with love I pledge to donate half of the income proceeds of this book to their noble cause. The Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity deals with 192,000 patient visits every year and they are extraordinary in the way they put the child first always. I feel blessed that I can do this and I feel even more blessed knowing that you have been kind companions on that journey with me.

"A splendid piece of work . . . fascinating for bibliographers, musicologists, liturgical specialists, and Renaissance historians."--D. W. Krummel, University of Illinois "A splendid piece of work . . . fascinating for bibliographers, musicologists, liturgical specialists, and Renaissance historians."--D. W. Krummel, University of Illinois

Siena, blessed with neither the aristocratic nor the ecclesiastical patronage enjoyed by music in other northern Italian centers like Florence, nevertheless attracted first-rate composers and performers from all over Europe. As Frank A. D'Accone shows in this scrupulously documented study, policies developed by the town to favor the common good formed the basis of Siena's ambitious musical programs. Based on decades of research in the town's archives, D'Accone's The Civic Muse brilliantly illuminates both the sacred and the secular aspects of more than three centuries of music and music-making in Siena. After detailing the history of music and liturgy at Siena's famous cathedral and of civic music at the Palazzo Pubblico, D'Accone describes the crucial role that music played in the daily life of the town, from public festivities for foreign dignitaries to private musical instruction. Putting Siena squarely on the Renaissance musical map, D'Accone's monumental study will interest both musicologists and historians of the Italian Renaissance.

This catalogue offers the first comprehensive listing of all books published in Spain, Portugal, Mexico and Peru or in Spanish or Portuguese before 1601. It describes over 19,000 bibliographically distinct items, with references to 100,000 surviving copies in over 1,200 libraries worldwide.

A vivid and multifaceted discussion of the sonic cultures developed within the diverse and dynamic matrix of Early Modern Catholicism (c.1450–1750), and of the role played by sound and music in defining Catholic experience.