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Divas in the Convent : Nuns, Music, and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century Italy.

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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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Main Author: Monson, Craig (Craig A.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Vizzana, Lucrezia Orsina, > 1590-1662. > Componimenti musicali.
Santa Cristina della Fondazza (Convent : Bologna, Italy)
Music in convents > Italy > Bologna > History > 17th century.
Church music > Italy > Bologna > 17th century.
Women composers > Italy > Bologna.
Church music.
Music in convents.
Women composers.
Italy > Bologna.
History.
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Divas in the convent : nuns, music, and defiance in seventeenth-century Italy / by Monson, Craig (Craig A.)

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