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    Musica nelle istituzioni religiose femminili a Napoli (1650-1750)

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    L'articolo indaga la produzione e il consumo di musica negli istituti religiosi femminili a Napoli fra 1650 e 175

    Introduzione al volume Studi Pergolesiani 10

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    Introduzione al volume di Studi Pergolesiani 10 dedicato alla musica nella Napoli Vicereale fra XVII e XVIII sec

    'Non senza scandalo delli convicini': pratiche musicali nelle istituzioni musicali femminili a Napoli 1650-1750

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    Le istituzioni femminili partenopee furono centri indiscutibili di cultura, fucine di mecenatismo, laboratori privilegiati di attività artistiche e di produzioni musicali e diedero un contributo incisivo alla vita culturale e artistica della Napoli vicereale. Monasteri e conservatori impiegarono nel corso dei secoli i musicisti più rappresentativi della città di Napoli a sostegno delle cerimonie liturgiche o per curare la formazione musicale delle religiose e delle figlie ospiti. Il presente studio si propone di indagare e ricostruire le attività musicali di questi enti attraverso lo studio della documentazione proveniente dai principali archivi presenti nella città di Napoli. Le fonti d'archivio permettono infatti di comprendere quale funzione avesse l'arte musicale nella vita dei chiostri. La ricerca intende inoltre considerare la realtà monastica femminile nel suo insieme, esaminando la presenza delle comunità religiose nella città e il loro ruolo all’interno delle dinamiche della vita urbana. L'indagine condotta restituisce oggi una visione attendibile del fenomeno sonoro nel quotidiano delle realtà claustrali, portandoci a comprendere quanto le comunità monastiche femminili contribuirono allo sviluppo di tradizioni musicali, spettacolari, liturgiche

    La tradizione musicale del monastero delle Clarisse di Santa Chiara di Napoli

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    The monastery of Santa Chiara was one of the most prestigious female monasteries in Naples. The magnificence and wealth nuns’s lifestyle was made evident by lavish celebrations, parties, and musical performances. The designation of the monastery of Santa Chiara as a seat of State ceremonies, coronations, and royal tombs, made it an emanation of the royal power. Archival documentation relating to the monastery is incomplete; available information, however, testifies of an important musical tradition both in the public and private spheres. At the end of sixteenth century there is mention of musical performances and entertainments that did not conform to the regulation, notwithstanding the recurrent prohibitions in the early modern period for the use of figured chant, polyphony, dramas and instruments differeant from the organ. Therefore there was a constant and rich use of music in the main celebrations of the liturgical year. Marian feast days, the liturgies of Forty Hours, the Holy Week, and above all the festivities of Santa Chiara and of the Corpus Christi involved the collaboration with the musicians of the Royal Chapel. The music could also be simply a pleasant pastime. There are numerous references to theatrical representations, spiritual operettas during the Carnival, intended as recreations for the nuns. Comparative analysis of archival records from various Neapolitan archives allows us to reconstruct the musical activities of this institution and the contribution that the monastery provided to the city’s cultural and artistic life between the seventeenth and eighteenth centurie

    Musica e follia agli albori del Romanticismo tedesco: “Der Besuch im Irrenhause” di Friedrich Rochlitz

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    In the year 1804, Friedrich Rochlitz was editor of the influential Leipzig review, «Allgemeine Musikahsche Zeitung». There he issued his short story, Der Besuch im Irrenhause ("A Visit to an Asylum"), which can be regarded as a pivotal work in the field of writings on the Romantic musician myth, as well among those relating art to madness. In fact, its most original aspect is its tight music - madness link - a novelty in those rimes - functioning as a Leitmotiv. Der Besuch im Irrenhause, sub-tided "An Essay in Psychology", depicts a scientifìc experiment. The narrator is an amateur psychologist. While touring an insane asylum, he is struck by a young inmate who withdrew from the real world to live in a personal one, mostly made of sounds and musical visions. Music, the language of heart and soul, gradually rises up to the role of ideal mean for inner expression. The act of listening implies transport and ecstasy, a journey in a fantasy world conjured up by sounds, and the vehicle to rise up to God. Music is seen as the «language of angels and blessed spirits», the sacred art par excellence, and the route to grasp the deep unity of the universe. Yet music will also drive the main character to madness, with mystic visions, imaginary dialogues, and raving. For sure, this work is interesting as a forerunner of several topics subsequently seized up by a whole generation of writers, musicians, and thinkers - the upcoming Romantic movement. Rochlitz's short story stands tall in its times, on a par with the best work by Wackenroder, Hoffmann, and Grillparzer. It is all the more interesting for its creator was no Romantic writer, but rather an 18th-century thinker, rooted in the Enlightenment, its views, and its values. Today, Rochlitz is an unduly neglected figure, whereas in his days he exerted vast influence in the German-speaking area
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