Disembodied Voices: Music and Culture in an Early Modern Italian Convent by Craig A. Monson

Disembodied Voices: Music and Culture in an Early Modern Italian Convent

Craig A. Monson

394 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

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Piecing together 200 years of convent history, this engaging narrative tells the story of the nuns of Santa Cristina della Fondazza—gifted singers, instrumentalists, and composers who used music to circumvent ecclesiastical authority and to forge ...

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