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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 23 May 1996
- ISBN 9780198164081
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages577 pages
- Size 242x164x36 mm
- Weight 1146 g
- Language English
- Illustrations plates, maps, and musical examples throughout 0
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Short description:
The most famous musicians of early modern Milan were its cloistered nuns, despite the efforts of church officials to limit their musical lives. This book details the cultural context, religious traditions, musical styles, and personal meaning of the music written by and for them from the late 16th to the early 18th century, and outlines the ways in which their status as female virgins was - and was not - central to their musical expression of their piety.
MoreLong description:
This study investigates an almost unknown musical culture: that of cloistered nuns in one of the major cities of early modern Europe. These women were the most famous musicians of Milan, and the music composed for them opens up a hitherto unstudied musical repertory, which allows insight into the symbolic world of the city. Even more importantly, the music actually composed by four such nuns, Claudia Scossa, Claudia Rusca, Chiara Margarita Cozzollani, and Rosa Giacinta Badalla - reveals the musical expression of women's devotional life.
The two centuries' worth of battles over nuns' singing of polyphony, studies here for the first time on the basis of massive archival documentation, also suggest that the implementation of reform in the major centre of post-Tridentine Catholic renewal was far more varied; incomplete, subject to local political pressure and individual interpretation, and short-lived than any religious historian has ever suggested. Other factors that marked nuns' musical lives and creative output - liturgical traditions of the religious orders, the problems of performance practice attendant upon all-female singing ensembles - are here addressed for the first time in the musicological literature.
One of the merits of Celestial Sirens is the generous sampling of the music provided by nearly one hundred examples of varying length, accompanied by Kendrick's meticulous analyis ... Kendrick provides the English-speaking reader with an erudite exploration into the subject of nuns' music ... let us hope that Kendrick's praiseworthy achievement will prompt further exploration of this complex history and bring to light more of the compositions of these musical women inside the cloister.
