Music at a Florentine Convent : The Biffoli-Sostegni Manuscript and Suor Maria Celeste Galilei
by
Laurie Stras
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Elements in Women in Music
ISBN-10
1009598643
ISBN-13
9781009598644
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 12th, 2026
Print length
110 Pages
Weight
5 grams
Product Classification:
Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600)Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groupsArt music, orchestral and formal musicComposers and songwritersReligious communities & monasticismGender studies: women and girlsGender studies: womenReligious communities and monasticism
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The Biffoli-Sostegni manuscript, MS 27766 of the Bibliothèque du Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles, is the only surviving volume of sixteenth-century convent polyphony. This Element uses archival sources related to San Matteo to create a historical context for the manuscript's music and the lives of the nuns for whom it was written.
The Biffoli-Sostegni manuscript, MS 27766 of the Bibliothèque du Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles, is the only volume of sixteenth-century polyphony with a secure provenance in a female convent. Its extraordinary survival is made all the more important by its origin at the Florentine convent of San Matteo in Arcetri, the convent in which Suor Maria Celeste Galilei, daughter of Galileo Galilei, spent the last two-thirds of her life. This Element uses archival sources related to San Matteo to create a historical context for the manuscript's music and the lives of the nuns for whom it was written. Analysis of the music is accompanied by both notated and audiovisual musical examples, performed by the UK all-female early music ensemble, Musica Secreta.
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