Music at a Florentine convent : the Biffoli-Sostegni manuscript and Suor Maria Celeste Galilei / Laurie Stras.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stras, Laurie, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in women in music

Cambridge elements. Elements in women in music, 2633-6871

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Galilei, Maria Celeste, 1600-1634.

Galilei, Maria Celeste.

Conservatoire royal de musique de Bruxelles. Bibliothèque--Manuscript--27766.

Conservatoire royal de musique de Bruxelles.

Convento di San Matteo (Arcetri, Italy).

Music in convents--Italy--Arcetri--History--17th century.

Music in convents.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"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"-- Cambridge Core.

Contents:

Historical context for the Biffoli‑Sostegni manuscript

Sound and music in the life of the convent

The music of the Biffoli‑Sostegni manuscript.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed December 18, 2025)

Other Format:

Print version: Stras, Laurie. Music at a Florentine convent

ISBN:

9781009387125

100938712X

OCLC:

1540664240

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