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 sixteenth to the early eighteenth century, and outlines the ways in which their status as female virgins was--and was not--central to the musical expression of their piety.
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"Intriguing....This book contains a wealth of newly published archival information that will interest anyone concerned with ritual and performance circumstances of polyphonic music in women's religious orders during this important period in musical history."--Choice
"Kendrick's ability to navigate the larger currents of sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Milanese culture in order to contextualize the practices of the city's female monasteries is only one of the many strengths of this impressive study....Celestial Sirens is an essential addition to the library of any historian with an interest in the sacred music of Seicento Italy."--Journal of the American Musicological Society
"[Kendrick's] skills as social historian and musicologist are clearly evident and well exercised, making his work a sound contribution in both fields."--Church History
"...Kendrick provides the English-speaking reader with an erudite exploration into the subject of nuns' music...[his] 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."--The Catholic Historical Review
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Robert L. Kendrick is at Harvard University.
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Any attempt to outline the musical world of nuns in an Italian city between the Cinquecento and the Seicento must begin with context: their institutional traditions, the intellectual and musical background to the flowering of their work, their thought and spirituality, and, on the broadest level, the interplay of ideology and expressive culture in their society. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
female monastic music, caeli cives, chiesa esteriore, monastic musicians, dote spirituale, chiesa interiore, sacri concerti, duplex feast, cantos mollis, musical nuns, solo motets, musita sacra, del contraponto, internal refrain, melodic periods, voce sola, concerto repertory, dulcis jesu, suavis est, urban prestige, motet texts, female monasteries, motet books, concerti ecclesiastici, high clefs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Maria Maddalena, Monastero Maggiore, Carlo Borromeo, Corpus Christi, Nun's Music, Sacra Congregazione, Giovanni Antonio, Mary Magdalene, Giovanni Battista, Holy Week, Maria Annunciata, Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Mid-century Lombardy, Middle Ages, Claudia Rusca, Suor Paola Giustina, Agostino Bianco, Federigo Borromeo, Maria Maddalcna, New York, Suor Laura, Agata Sfondrati, Double Intercession, Federigo's Milan, Milanese Seicento New!
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Any attempt to outline the musical world of nuns in an Italian city between the Cinquecento and the Seicento must begin with context: their institutional traditions, the intellectual and musical background to the flowering of their work, their thought and spirituality, and, on the broadest level, the interplay of ideology and expressive culture in their society. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
female monastic music, caeli cives, chiesa esteriore, monastic musicians, dote spirituale, chiesa interiore, sacri concerti, duplex feast, cantos mollis, musical nuns, solo motets, musita sacra, del contraponto, internal refrain, melodic periods, voce sola, concerto repertory, dulcis jesu, suavis est, urban prestige, motet texts, female monasteries, motet books, concerti ecclesiastici, high clefs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Maria Maddalena, Monastero Maggiore, Carlo Borromeo, Corpus Christi, Nun's Music, Sacra Congregazione, Giovanni Antonio, Mary Magdalene, Giovanni Battista, Holy Week, Maria Annunciata, Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Mid-century Lombardy, Middle Ages, Claudia Rusca, Suor Paola Giustina, Agostino Bianco, Federigo Borromeo, Maria Maddalcna, New York, Suor Laura, Agata Sfondrati, Double Intercession, Federigo's Milan, Milanese Seicento New!
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- Monteverdi and the End of the Renaissance by Gary Tomlinson on page 6, and Back Matter
- The Historical Anthropology of Early Modern Italy: Essays on Perception and Communication by Peter Burke on page 21, and Back Matter
- The Italian Renaissance by Peter Burke on page 1, and Back Matter
- Gender and the Politics of History by Joan Wallach Scott on page 10, and Back Matter
- Abstracts of Papers by American Chemical Society on page 236
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- Convents and the Body Politic in Late Renaissance Venice (Women in Culture and Society) by Jutta Gisela Sperling in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Architecture and the Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World) by Helen Hills on page 172, and Back Matter
- Holy Concord within Sacred Walls: Nuns and Music in Siena, 1575-1700 by Colleen Reardon in Back Matter
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