Divas in the Convent : Nuns, Music, and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century Italy.
When eight-year-old Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (1590 & ndash;1662) entered one of the preeminent convents in Bologna in 1598, she had no idea what cloistered life had in store for her. Thanks to clandestine instruction from a local maestro di cappella & mdash;and despite the church hierarchy &a...
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Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations; Preface to the New Edition; Acknowledgments; Dramatis Personae; List of Abbreviations; Praeludium: Putting Nun Musicians in Their Place; 1. Donna Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana of Santa Cristinadella Fondazza; 2. Lucrezia Vizzana's Musical Apprenticeship; 3. Musical and Monastic Disobedience in Vizzana's Componimenti musicali; 4. Hearing Lucrezia Vizzana's Voice; 5. Troubles in an Earthly Paradise: "It Began because of Music"; 6. Voices of Discord at Santa Cristina; 7. Losing Battles with a Bishop: "We Cared for Babylon, and She Is Not Healed."
- 8. A Gentler Means to a Bitter End9." Pomp Indecent for Religious Observance and Modesty"; 10. Another Bishop, Another Battle, a Different Outcome; 11. A Last Battle and an Uneasy Peace; Coda; Notes; Glossary; Further Reading and Listening; Index.