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Of nuns fictitious and real: revisiting Philomela angelica (1688)
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| Author | Lucas G. Harris – Robert L. Kendrick |
| Series | Recercare - Rivista per lo studio e la pratica della musica antica - Journal for the study and practice of early music |
| Nr. | XXXII/1-2 2020 |
| Size | 17×24, pp. 248 |
| Year | 2020 |
| ISBN | 9788855430319 |
This article examines the Italian content, compilation history, and target audience of Daniel Speer’s 1688 motet collection Philomela angelica (Venice [recte: Ulm], 1688). In light of Jana Bartová’s discovery that Speer had reused six motets from Chiara Margarita Cozzolani’s Scherzi di sacra melodia (Venice, 1648) otherwise incompletely preserved, we examine Speer’s changes to his borrowings, which also include pieces by Maurizio Cazzati and Isabella Leonarda. We also consider issues of continuo figuration, scoring, and textual expression in the now-reconstructable pieces by Cozzolani and others.
Robert L. Kendrick teaches music history and ethnomusicology at the University of Chicago. Among his previous publications there figure Celestial sirens: Nuns and their music in early modern Milan (1996), The sounds of Milan, 1585-1650 (2002), Singing Jeremiah: Music and meaning in Holy Week (2014), and an edition of Chiara Margherita Cozzolani’s motets (1998).
rkendric@uchicago.edu
Lucas Harris teaches at the Tafelmusik Summer and Winter Baroque Institutes, Oberlin Conservatory’s Baroque Performance Institute, and the Canadian Renaissance Music Summer School. He completed graduate studies in choral conducting at the University of Toronto. Among his many diverse activities are serving as the regular lutenist with Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra as well as the Artistic Director of the Toronto Chamber Choir.
lucasharris@live.ca